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

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.

The superior power of population cannot be checked without producing misery or vice.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Had population and food increased in the same ratio, it is probable that man might never have emerged from the savage state.

The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a force that varies merely in the inverse ratio of the squares of the distances.