62 Quotes by Jean-Baptiste Say

Law has been unjustly charged with the whole blame of the calamities resulting from the scheme that bears his name.

Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.

Supply creates its own demand.

The entrepreneur shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher productivity and greater yield.

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

The United States will have the honour of proving experimentally, that true policy goes hand in hand with moderation and humanity.

It is the aim of good government to stimulate production, of bad government to encourage consumption.

Valuation is vague and arbitrary, when there is no assurance that it will be generally acquiesced in by others.

If the community wish to have the benefit of more knowledge and intelligence in the labouring classes, it must dispense it at the public charge.