Dudley North

“The exportation of money, in trade, is a means to increase the treasure of a nation.”

“No laws can set prices in trade, the rates of which must and will make themselves.”

“All favour to one trade or interest is an abuse, and cuts so much of profit from the public.”

“Gold and silver are in no sort different from other commodities, but are as much a merchandise as wine, oil, tobacco, cloth, or stuffs.”

“Interest is the rent of stock, and is the same as the rent of land.”

“That the debasing the coin is an abuse, and prejudice to the public.”

“There can be no trade unprofitable to the public; for if any prove so, men leave it off; and wherever the traders thrive, the public, of which they are a part, thrives also.”

“It is not low interest makes trade, but trade increasing, the stock of the nation makes interest low.”

“No man can be richer for the having his estate all in money... lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.”

“The whole world as to trade, is but as one nation or people, and therein nations are as persons.”

“Money is a merchandise, whereof there may be a glut, as well as a scarcity, and that even to an inconvenience.”

“That a people cannot want money to drive their trade, unless they are wanting of other necessaries for life.”