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Type: Economist Quotes Category: English Economist Quotes Date of Birth: May 27, 1623 Date of Death: December 16, 1687 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: William Petty Related Authors: John Maynard Keynes Thomas Malthus Alfred Marshall Nassau William Senior James Meade Dudley North E. F. Schumacher |
A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
William Petty 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 and tool of gain. William Petty Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons. William Petty As for religion, I die in the profession of that faith, and in the practice of such worship as I find established by the law of my country. William Petty 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 to keep all men from a necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers. William Petty Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier. William Petty 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 Mother, that the state by killing, mutilating, or imprisoning their members do withal punish themselves. William Petty I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration. William Petty It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, especially according to its most natural bounds. William Petty Money is the best rule of commerce. William Petty No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once. William Petty 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 as the World. William Petty The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange. William Petty We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in. William Petty 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 the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient. William Petty 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 may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself. William Petty |
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