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The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.

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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

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It is a beneficent incident of the ownership of land that a pioneer who reduces it to use, and helps to lay the foundations of a new State, finds a profit in the increasing value of land as the new State grows up.

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Moreover, there is an unearned increment on capital and on labor, due to the presence, around the capitalist and the laborer, of a great, industrious, and prosperous society.

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It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.

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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.

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Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

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Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.

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Men of routine or men who can do what they are told are not hard to find; but men who can think and plan and tell the routine men what to do are very rare.

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The aggregation of large fortunes is not at all a thing to be regretted.

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Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: Unknown

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