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The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Opulent, civilized, and industrious nations, are greater consumers than poor ones, because they are infinitely greater producers.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
What can we expect from nations still less advanced in civilization than the Greeks?
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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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Still how unenlightened and ignorant are the very nations we term civilized!
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The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Capital cannot be more beneficially employed, then in strengthening and aiding the productive powers of nature.
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The luxury of ostentation affords a much less substantial and solid gratification, than the luxury of comfort, if I may be allowed the expression.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
The difficulty lies, not in finding a producer, but in finding a consumer.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
The love of domination never attains more than a factitious elevation, that is sure to make enemies of all its neighbours.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
The quantity of money, which is readily parted with to obtain a thing is called its price.
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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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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.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
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But, is it possible for princes and ministers to be enlightened, when private individuals are not so?
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Supply creates its own demand.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
One product is always ultimately bought with another, even when paid for in the first instance with money.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Political economy has only become a science since it has been confined to the results of inductive investigation.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
What is the motive which operates in every man's breast to counteract the impulse towards the gratification of his wants and appetites?
— Jean-Baptiste Say
I have made no distinction between the circulation of goods and of money, because there really is none.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
The sea and wind can at the same time convey my neighbour's vessel and my own.
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When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
— Jean-Baptiste Say
At Newfoundland, it is said, that dried cod performs the office of money
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Taxation being a burthen, must needs weigh lightest on each individual, when it bears upon all alike.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
Nothing can be more idle than the opposition of theory to practice!
— Jean-Baptiste Say
It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
