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“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.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xv - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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“The manner in which things exist and take place, constitutes what is called the nature of things; and a careful observation of the nature of things is the sole foundation of all truth.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xvii - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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“With respect to the present time, there are few persons who unite the qualifications of good observers with a situation favourable for accurate observation.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xix - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xxi - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xxvi - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xxix - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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“It is, perhaps, a well founded objection to Mr. Ricardo, that he sometimes reasons upon abstract principles to which he gives too great a generalization.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xlvii - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. xlix (See also: Fuedalism, Mercantilism, Imperialism, Fascism,Communism, Capitalism..) - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. liv - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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“With no fixed opinions in relation to the causes of public prosperity, the nation, like a ship without chart or compass, was driven about by the caprice of the winds and the folly of the pilot, alike ignorant of the place of her departure or destination.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. lvi - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Introduction, p. lix-lx - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter I, p. 61 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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“No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter II, p. 65 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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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.”

- Jean-Baptiste Say

Source/Notes: Book I, On Production, Chapter II, p. 69 - A Treatise On Political Economy (Fourth Edition)(1832)

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