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Top 10 William Petty Quotes (2025 Update)

William Petty Quote: “Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.”

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

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “Money is the best rule of commerce.”

2. “Money is the best rule of commerce.”

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

3. “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.”

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “The trade of banks is the buying and selling of interest and exchange.”

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

— William Petty

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

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

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

7. “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

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

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

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

9. “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.”

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

10. “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

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

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

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

12. “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

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

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

— William Petty

William Petty Quote: “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.”

14. “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.”

— William Petty

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