William Petty Quotes


Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of birth and burials is impaired; wherefore by laborious conjectures and calculations to deduce the number of people from the births and burials, may be ingenious, but very preposterous. - 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


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


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


Now, forasmuch as princes are not only powerful but rich, according to a number of people (hands being the Father as lands are the Mother or Womb of Wealth), it is no wonder why states by encouraging marriage, advance their own interests. - William Petty


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


Money is the best rule of commerce. - 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


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