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

On the whole it may be observed, that the specific use of a body of unproductive consumers, is to give encouragement to wealth by maintaining such a balance between produce and consumption as will give the greatest exchangeable value to the results of the national industry.

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

Hard as it may appear in individual instances , dependent poverty ought to be held disgraceful.

The power of population is indefinitely greater than the power in the earth to produce subsistence for man.

Every endeavor should be used to weaken and destroy all those institutions relating to corporations, apprenticeships, &c, which cause the labours of agriculture to be worse paid than the labours of trade and manufactures.

Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.