Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot Quotes

#1. It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#2. All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#3. Every soil does not produce every material.

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#4. The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#5. All money is essentially merchandize.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot

#6. Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.

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#7. Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

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#8. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.

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#9. Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

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#10. The whole mass of humanity ... marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

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#11. Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot