Famous quotes containing the words population and/or wanted:
“O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)