Friday 1 July 2011

Franklin: Three Ways For A Nation To Aquire Wealth

Franklin: Three Ways For A Nation To Aquire Wealth


"There seems to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbours—this is robbery;

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second by commerce, which is generally cheating;

the third by agriculture-
the only honest way, wherein a man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground in a kind of continuous miracle. ."

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

(January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790)