The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which secures to every one his property. For the first persons who have employed themselves… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share
What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy to be divided into aliquot parts. All is more or less applicable for the purpose of a general pledge of exchange, in proportion as it is less susceptible of… — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Every soil does not produce every material. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants. — Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune Copy Share Image
