"Every seaman is not only a navigator, but……" — William Petty
"Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier."
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15 Quotes by William Petty
William Petty has 15 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative…
- 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…
- Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that…
- Here we are to remember that in consequence of our opinion that labor is the Father and active principle of…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain…
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