Protection or Free Trade
- Henry George (author)
George was not just an advocate of the single tax on the unimproved value of land, but also a strong defender of free trade, as this work demonstrates.
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Key Quotes
Free Trade
Free trade consists simply in letting people buy and sell as they want to buy and sell. It is protection that requires force, for it consists in preventing people from doing what they want to do. Protective tariffs are as much applications of force as are blockading squadrons, and their object is…
Free Trade
In throwing open our ports to the commerce of the world we shall far better secure their safety than by fortifying them with all the “protected” plates that our steel ring could make. For not merely would free trade give us again that mastery of the ocean which protection has deprived us of, and…
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