William Petty Quotes

“Milk was used in various forms during the summer months; in winter beer or water was used. Bread, cakes, potatoes, and sea food were the principal foods. Animal flesh was not used commonly due to the inconvenience of storing. Turf was the common fuel.”

Food Meat Milk Ireland Diet 18th Century Vegan Quotes Meat Eating

Author:William Petty

“Money is the best rule of commerce.”

Finance Commerce

Author: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.”

States Remember Mother Father Wealth Opinion Principles Land Members Consequence Labor Killing Active

Author:William Petty

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

Interest Trade Selling Buying Buying And Selling

Author: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.”

Way Mean House Gains Tools Instruments Double Standard

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

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

Men Pay Double Standard

Book:Tracts; Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: I. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland. By the Late Sir William Petty. To which is Prefixed His Last Will

Source: Tracts; Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: I. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland. By the Late Sir William Petty. To which is Prefixed His Last Will

“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.”

Men Whole Chance Race Happenings Judgement Etc Impatient Corrections Candid

Book:Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc

Source: Tracts chiefly relating to Ireland, etc

“Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.”

May Values Change Loss Pieces Raised Species

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

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

Soul Effects Thousand Ten Acres

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

“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.”

Men Mean War Hands Certain Nations Causes Wealth Stealing Civil War

Book:Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

Source: Tracts, Chiefly Relating to Ireland: Containing: 1. A Treatise of Taxes and Contributions. II. Essays in Political Arithmetic. III. The Political Anatomy of Ireland

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

Men Said Mathematical Demonstration

Author: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.”

World Evil Envious

Book:Political arthmetick, or a discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings, husbandry, manufacture, commerce etc

Source: Political arthmetick, or a discourse concerning the extent and value of lands, people, buildings, husbandry, manufacture, commerce etc

“It were good to know how much hay an acre of every sort will bear; how many cattle the same weight of each sort of hay will feed and fatten; what quantity of grain and other commodities the same acre will bear in one, three or seven years; unto what use each soil is proper; all which particulars I call intrinsic value, for there is also another value merely accidental or extrinsic.”