Wherefore when a man giveth out his money upon condition that be may not demand it back until a certain time to come, he certainly may take a compensation for this inconvenience which he admits against himself.
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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
I make this question, whether, since they do all live by begging... it were not better for the state to keep them.
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 necessity either to beg, or steal, or be Souldiers.
William Petty
In the next place, it will be asked, who shall pay these men I answer, everybody.
William Petty
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
William Petty
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