All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
To a proprietor of a mine, the silver money is a produce with which he buys what he has occasion for. To… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
The government has, in all countries, a vast influence, in determining the character of the national consumption; not only because it absolutely… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
To the labor of man alone Smith ascribes the power of producing values. This is an error. A more exact analysis demonstrates... that all… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so? — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
All travellers agree that protestant are both richer and more populous than catholic countries;and the reason is, because the habits of the former are… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
Whence it is evident that the remedy must be adapted to the particular cause of the mischief; consequently, the cause must be ascertained, before… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
Freedoms and apprenticeships are likewise expedients of police,not of that wholesome branch of police, whose object is the maintenance of the public and private… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
Capital can seldom be made productive, without undergoing several changes both of form and of place, the risk of which is always more or… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
Nothing is more dangerous in practice, than an obstinate, unbending adherence to a system, particularly in its application to the wants and errors of… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
It is doubtless very desirable, that private persons should have a correct knowledge of their personal interests; but it must be infinitely more so,… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege.… — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share
