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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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[Wikipedia] Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne, commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist and statesman. Sometimes considered a physiocrat, he is today best remembered as an early advocate for economic liberalism. He is thought to have been the first political economist to have postulated somet

Quotes by Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Essentials

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It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Errors

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The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Advantage

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If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Being equal

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All money is essentially merchandize.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Money

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What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Admire

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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

Conventions

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All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Alterations

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The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Greater

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Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Affair

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Every soil does not produce every material.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Doe

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Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Inspirational

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The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and…

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

Cultivation

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