17 ordspråk av William Petty

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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.

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

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.

If great cities are naturally apt to remove their seats, I ask, which way? I say, in the case of London it must be westward... If it follow from hence that the palaces of the greatest men will remove westward, it will also naturally follow that the dwelling of others who depend upon them will creep after them.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Another cause which aggravates taxes is the force of paying them in money at a certain tinge, and not in commodities at the most convenient seasons.

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

We incline, therefore, to think the parishes should be equal or near, because in the reformed religion the principal use of a church is to preach in.

In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men? I answer, everybody.

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.

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

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

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