John S. Mill

"No quantity of moveable goods which a person can acquire by his labour, prevents others from acquiring the like by the same means; but from the nature of the case whoever owns land keeps others out of the enjoyment of it. The privilege or monopoly of land is only defensible; as a necessary evil, and it becomes an injustice when carried to any point to which the compensating good does not follow it." "The claim of the landowners is altogether subordinate to the general policy of the State. The principle of property gives them no right to the land, but only a right to compensation for whatever portion of their interest in the land it may be the policy of the State to deprive them of."