Jean-Baptiste Say Short Quotes

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Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!

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At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money,

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The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.

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Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!

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The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.

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What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?

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Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.

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The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.

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When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.

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The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

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Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.

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But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?

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I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.

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The best scheme of finance is, to spend as little as possible; and the best tax is always the lightest.

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A tax can never be favorable to the public welfare, except by the good use that is made of its proceeds.

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How many other opinions, as universally prevailing and as much respected, will in like manner pass away?

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One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.

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Thus, it is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

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Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

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Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.

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Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.

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Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

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The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.

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Capital must work, as it were, in concert with industry; and this concurrence is what I call the productive agency of capital.

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Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.

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The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

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To have never done anything but make the eighteenth part of a pin, is a sorry account for a human being to give of his existence.

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The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

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What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?

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The most effectual encouragement to population is, the activity of industry, and the consequent multiplication of the national products.

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