It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Science ... in other words, knowledge-is not the enemy of religion; for, if so, then religion would mean ignorance. But it is often the antagonist of school-divinity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.The difference between gossip and philosophy lies only in one's way of taking a fact.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.