It cannot be true, therefore, that among animals some of the offspring will possess the desirable qualities of the parents in greater degree, or that… - Thomas Robert Malthus

The labouring poor, to use a vulgar expression, seem always to live from hand to mouth. Their present wants employ their whole whole attention, and they seldom think of the future. Even when they have an opportunity of saving they seldom exercise it, but all that is beyond their present neccessities goes, generally speaking, to the ale house.

If a country can only be rich by running a successful race for low wages, I should be disposed to say at once, perish such riches!

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.