The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have t…

- 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; wh…

- William Petty

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 n…

- William Petty

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 …

- William Petty

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

- William Petty

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

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

- William Petty

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 qua…

- William Petty

Money is the best rule of commerce.

- William Petty