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.

I do not know that any writer has supposed that on this earth man will ultimately be able to live without food.

It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

The most successful supporters of tyranny are without doubt those general declaimers who attribute the distresses of the poor, and almost all evils to which society is subject, to human institutions and the iniquity of governments.

When Hume and Adam Smith prophesied that a little increase of national debt beyond the then amount of it, would probably occasion bankruptcy; the main cause of their error was the natural one, of not being able to see the vast increase of productive power to which the nation would subsequently obtain.

The redundant population, necessarily occasioned by the prevalence of early marriages, must be repressed by occasional famines, and by the custom of exposing children, which, in times of distress, is probably more frequent than is ever acknowledged to Europeans.