William Petty Quotes

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

"Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier."
-William Petty

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

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

"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."
-William Petty

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