Above All, It Behooves Us To Repress,

It Is Obviously Easier, For The Short Run, To Draw Cheap Labor From Adjacent Pools Of Poverty...than To Find It Among One's Own People. And To The Millions Of Such Prospective Immigrants From Poverty To Prosperity, There Is, Rightly Or Wrongly, No Place That Looks More Attractive Than The United States. Given Its Head, And Subject To No Restrictions, This Pressure Will Find Its Termination Only When The Levels Of Overpopulation And Poverty In The United States Are Equal To Those Of The Countries From Which These People Are Now So Anxious To Escape.

The Best Thing We Can Do If We Want The Russians To Let Us Be Americans Is To Let The Russians Be Russian.

...there Is An Optimal Balance, Depending On The Manner Of Man's Life, Between The Density Of Human Population And The Tolerances Of Nature. This Balance, In The Case Of The United States Would Seem To Me To Have Been Surpassed When The American Population Reached, At A Very Maximum, Two Hundred Million People, And Perhaps A Good Deal Less.

This Is A Big World. Billions - Rapidly Increasing Billions - Of People Live Outside Our Borders. Obviously, A Great Number Of Them, Being Much Poorer Than They Think Most Of Us Are, Look Enviously Over Those Borders And Would Like, If They Could, To Come Here.

The Jealous And Intolerant Eye Of The Kremlin Can Distinguish, In The End, Only Vassals And Enemies, And The Neighbors Of Russia, If They Do Not Wish To Be One, Must Reconcile Themselves To Being The Other.