The power of population is so superior to the power of the earth to produce subsistence for man, that premature death must in some shape or other visit the human race.

With regard to the duration of human life, there does not appear to have existed from the earliest ages of the world to the present moment the smallest permanent symptom or indication of increasing prolongation.

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.

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

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.

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

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