I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour.

A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.

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

To remedy the frequent distresses of the common people, the poor laws of England have been instituted; but it is to be feared that though they may have alleviated a little the intensity of individual misfortune, they have spread the general evil over a much larger surface.

If it be taught that all who are born have a right to support on the land, whatever be their number, and that there is no occasion to exercise any prudence in the affair of marriage so as to check this number, the temptations, according to all the known principles of human nature, will inevitably be yielded to, and more and more will gradually become dependent on parish assistance.

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

The world's population will multiply more rapidly than the available food supply.