posted 02-12-2010 02:24 PM            

Tony

“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 for continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccinations is broad enough to cover cutting Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough.”

[Chief Justice Holmes contributed this opinion to the judgment by which the sterilization law of Virginia was declared constitutional.] Buck v Bell

— Oliver Wendell Holmes