All money is essentially merchandize.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and …

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

Every soil does not produce every material.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

The earth has been cultivated before it has been divided; the cultivation itself having been the only motive for a division, and for that law which s…

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

The expenses of government, having for their object the interest of all, should be borne by everyone, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of soc…

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

All is more or less proper to serve as a common measure, in proportion as it is more or less in general use, of a more similar quality, and more easy…

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

- Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron De Laune