4 Quotes & Sayings By William Petty

William Petty is a Canadian writer, editor, and publisher. He was born in Montreal in 1969. He attended the University of Toronto where he received his BA in History and English Literature. His first book, The Romantic Manifesto (Penguin), was published in 1996 Read more

He has since published 12 books, including the critically acclaimed The Lost Weekend (HarperCollins) and The Unknown Che Guevara (HarperCollins).

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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
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Money is the best rule of commerce. William Petty
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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 correction I shall never be impatient. William Petty