William Petty Quotes

• Instead of using only comparative Words and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course…to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.

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• Labour is the Father and active principle of Wealth, as lands are the Mother.

  William Petty

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• If a man bring to London an ounce of Silver out of the Earth in Peru in the same time that he can produce a bushel of Corn, then one is the natural price of the other.

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  Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.

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• 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

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• A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.

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• No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

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• The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.

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• Money is the best rule of commerce.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• I hope no man takes what I said about the living and dieing of men for mathematical demonstration.

  William Petty

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• 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.

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• 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.

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William Petty (15)

Birth:	27th May, 1623
Death:	16th December, 1687
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Economist, Philosopher, Scientist

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