Many people are horrified at the idea of birth control. . . . It is simply the keynote of a new moral program.

Diplomats make it their business to conceal the facts, and politicians violently denounce the politicians of other countries.

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.

No woman can call herself free who cannot choose the time to be a mother or not as she sees fit.

Very early in my childhood I associated poverty, toil, unemployment, drunkenness, cruelty, quarreling, fighting, debts, jail with large families.

The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.