The first right of every child is to be wanted, to be desired, to be planned for with an intensity of love that gives it its title to being.

More children from the fit, less from the unfit -- that is the chief aim of birth control.

As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.

If we are really to live at all we must put our convictions into action.

Women of the working class, especially wage workers, should not have more than two children at most. The average working man can support no more and and the average working woman can take care of no more in decent fashion.

Hordes of people [are] born, who live, yet who have done absolutely nothing to advance the race one iota. Their lives are hopeless repetitions… Such human weeds clog up the path, drain up the energies and the resources of this little earth. We must clear the way for a better world; we must cultivate our garden.

The real hope of the world lies in putting as painstaking thought into the business of mating as we do into other big businesses.