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“To secure the greatest amount of pleasure with the least possible outlay should be the aim of all economic effort… when everyone does this the natural order, instead of being endangered, will be all the better assured.”

François Quesnay

Questney, cited in: J. D. Vassie, ‎Paul Chadburn (1935). Economics, Modern Business, p. 137.

“Calculations are to the economic science what bones are to the human body. Without them it will always be a vague and confused science, at the mercy of error and prejudice.”

François Quesnay

François Quesnay in letter to Mirabeau (Archives Nationales, Ms. 779, 4 bis, p.2 note); as cited in: Richard Van Den Berg and Albert Steenge. "Tableaux and Systèmes. Early French Contributions to Linear Production Models." Cahiers d'économie Politique/Papers in Political Economy 2 (2016): 11-30.

“Without that sense of security which property gives, the land would still be uncultivated.”

François Quesnay

Sans la certitude de la propriété, le territoire resterait inculte.
Quesnay, (1888, p. 331), cited in: Velo Dario (2014). The EuroAtlantic Union Review: Vol. 1 - No. 0/2014. p. 96.

“You recognize but one rule of commerce; that is (to avail myself of your own terms) to allow free passage and freedom of action to all buyers and sellers whoever they may be.”

François Quesnay

François Quesnay in letter from M. Alpha to de Quesnay, 1767; cited in: Antony Jay (2010). Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. p. 253.