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 c… - Oliver Wendell Holmes

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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.

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About Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (8 March 1841 – 6 March 1935) was an American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932; he was often called "The Great Dissenter", and was the son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Native Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Alternative Names: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. Oliver Wendell, Jr. Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Oliver Wendell Holmes, jr. Oliver W. Holmes Jr. Oliver Holmes Jr. Oliver Holmes Oliver W. Holmes
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Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

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Remember, my friend, that every good costs something. Don’t forget that to have anything means to go without something else. Even to be a person, to be this means to be not that.

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We have to choose, and for my part I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part.

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