Michael K. Simpson Quotes

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.

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.

Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

What I like about land is I can drive out and check on it. It doesn't go anywhere. It's hard to steal land.

We got our land at the right time, but when we go for additional land for our schools or the museum, there will be extra cost.

Everyone wants a piece of land. It's the only sure investment. It can never depreciate like a car or a washing machine. Land will double its value in ten years. In less than that. Land is going up every day.

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for what it really is: an incredibly valuable asset.

If you're going to build something, don't build on land someone else already owns. You want your own land, your own domain, your own sovereignty. Trouble is, so much of the choice land - the land where all the people are - is already owned by someone else: By Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Yahoo, and Apple (in apps, anyway).

Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

Buy land. They ain't making any more of the stuff.

Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure.

The shortage of land is due less to purchase by Jews than to the increase in the Arab population. The Arab claims that the Jews have obtained too large a proportion of good land cannot be maintained. Much of the land now carrying orange groves was sand dunes or swamps and uncultivated when it was bought.

Sell a country? why not sell the air, the clouds ….

Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

It appears that land is the true center of power, and that the balance of dominion changes with the balance of property…

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

Farmers were 'unable to develop their landholdings due to many restrictions. We passed the land pooling policy so they can plan to build infrastructure - with the help of private builders too.

We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name.

The major fortunes in America have been made in land.

Land is an emotional subject with a farmer in India because it is his only means of income.

The possession of land seems to be a greater gratification to the pride and independence of men.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Golf courses sell real estate and that's why they're built.

Land is everything.

Utah today remains a battleground for land-use policies.