The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.

No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.

It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

Whether the law of marriage be instituted or not, the dictate of nature and virtue seems to be an early attachment to one woman.