When every province of the world so teems with inhabitants that they can neither subsist where they are nor remove themselves elsewhere. . . the world will purge itself in one or another of these three ways (floods, plague and famine)
I am not only not prepared to bring forward any measure of this nature, but I will at once declare that, as far as I am concerned, as long as I hold any station in the Government of the country, I shall always feel it my duty to resist such measures when proposed by others.