Famous Quotes / William Petty
12 Quotations by William Petty
- 1. A thousand acres that can feed a thousand souls is better than ten thousand acres of no more effect.
- 2. An house is of a double nature, viz., one, wherein it is a way and means of expence, the other as it ...
- 3. Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and no ...
- 4. Causes of Civil War are also, that the Wealth of the Nation is in too few mens hands, and that no ce ...
- 5. Civil Wars are likewise caused by peoples fansying, that their own uneasie condition may be best rem ...
- 6. Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
- 7. It were good to know the geometrical content, figure and situation of all the lands of a kingdom, es ...
- 8. Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people (hands bei ...
- 9. The full understanding of the nature of Money, the effects of the various species of Coins, and of t ...
- 10. We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religi ...
- 11. Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a cert ...
- 12. Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of k ...