On the contrary, the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.

The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.

We gather perfect fruit from perfect trees.

Couples should be required to submit applications to have a child.

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

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.

When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race.