Proprietors Quotes

The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. It makes free men. We want a nation of proprietors, not a state of collectivists. That is attained by creating a national wealth and income, not by destroying it. The income and estate taxes create an orderly movement to diffuse swollen fortunes more effectively than all the quacks.

Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for the necessaries, conveniences, and luxuries of life, than a single proprietor possessing a hundred thousand a year.

Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.

The past is the luxury of proprietors.

The landed proprietors as a class are little qualified to pass judgment as to the real and the fictitious in certain social phenomena; on the other hand, they are naturally inclined to follow any conservative tendency, afraid as they are of a return of serious disorders .... The great industrialists were not thinking of combatting Bolshevism, which they knew very well did not threaten them any longer; they were up in arms against the socialist, or socializing, spirit of reform which had been gradually developing in the first twenty years of this century

Rich men, and above all proprietors of tenanted estates and holders of stock who practice no other profession than what the price of their money can raise, are incomparably less worthy citizens than a trading or working man …

We do not ever want our land policy to be shaped so as to create a big class of proprietors who rent to others..

Sometimes the proprietors of the little juke joints gave me a couple dollars. I loved that. I'd go back next Saturday.