William Petty Quotes

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

- William Petty

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

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. - William Petty

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