William Petty Quotes

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• The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I…
• Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
• An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it is an instrument…
• Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no certain means are provided…
• Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of wealth, as lands are the…
• I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.
• Money is the best rule of commerce.
• No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
• That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old…
• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.
• Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to…
• Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly…
• No man pays double or twice for the same thing, for as much as nothing can be spent but once.
• Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgment of the whole to…

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