Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

Articles

Individual

Use

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

Errors

Numbers

Research

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

Doe

Political

Purpose

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Alas

Persecuted

Wisdom

All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

Political

Reality

Wisdom

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

Government

Long

Loss

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

Character

Home

Self

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

Employed

Power Of Nature

Strengthening

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

Agency

Concerts

Concurrence

Every individual, from the common mechanic, that works in wood or clay, to the prime minister that regulates with the dash of his pen the agriculture, the breeding of cattle, the mining, or the commerce of a nation, will perform his business the better, the better he understands the nature of things,and the more his understanding is enlightened.

Agriculture

Understanding

Woods

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Distinction

Division

Doe

Domination

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Enemy

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Exercise

Finance

Goods

Government

Greek

Gross

Guides

Hands

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Idle

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Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Say

Jean-Baptiste Say

A nation or an individual, will do wisely to direct consumption chiefly to those articles, that are longest time in wearing out, and the most frequently in use.

A science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy.

A treasure does not always contribute to the political security of its possessors. It rather invites attack, and very seldom is faithfully applied to the purpose for which it was destined.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

All those who, since Adam Smith, have turned their attention to Political Economy, agree that in reality we do not buy articles of consumption with money, the circulating medium with which we pay for them. We must in the first instance have bought this money itself by the sale of our produce.

And let no government imagine, that, to strip them of the power of defrauding their subjects, is to deprive them of a valuable privilege. A system of swindling can never be long lived, and must infallibly in the end produce much more loss than profit.

But what must be the character of that policy, which aims at national prosperity through the impoverishment of a large proportion of the home producers, with a view to supply foreigners at a cheaper rate, and give them all the benifet of the national privation and self denial?

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

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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