The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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

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

The natural inequality of the two powers of population and of production in the earth, and that great law of our nature which must constantly keep their efforts equal, form the great difficulty that to me appears insurmountable in the way to the perfectibility of society.

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

The rich, by unfair combinations, contribute frequently to prolong a season of distress among the poor.

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