William Petty

Found 6 thoughts of 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.

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

Money is the best rule of commerce.

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

I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.

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.