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As an advocate for birth control, I wish to take advantage of the present opportunity to point out that the unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit', admittedly the greatest present menace to civilization, can never be rectified by the inauguration of a cradle competition between these two classes.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child, and no man shall have the right to become a father, without a permit for parenthood.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Apply a stern and rigid policy of sterilization and segregation to that grade of population whose progeny is tainted, or whose inheritance is such that objectionable traits may be transmitted to offspring.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
...these two words [birth control] sum up our whole philosophy...It means the release and cultivation of better elements in our society, and the gradual suppression, elimination, and eventual extinction, of defective stocks -- those human weeds which threaten the blooming of the finest flowers of American civilization.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Birth control itself, often denounced as a violation of natural law, is nothing more or less than the facilitation of the process of weeding out the unfit, of preventing the birth of defectives or of those who will become defectives.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
The unbalance between the birth rate of the 'unfit' and the 'fit,' [is] the greatest present menace to civilization… the most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over-fertility of the mentally and physically defective.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order...
-- Margaret Sanger		 
[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children...
-- Margaret Sanger		 
[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization.
-- Margaret Sanger		 
[I'm too old to] be influenced by newspaper arguments. When I read them I form perhaps a new opinion of the newspaper but seldom a new opinion on the subject discussed.
-- George Santayana		 
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana		 
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
-- George Santayana		 
To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
-- George Santayana		 
Skepticism is a discipline fit to purify the mind of prejudice and render it all the more apt, when the time comes, to believe and to act wisely.
-- George Santayana		 
When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and reestablish themselves alone.
-- George Santayana		 
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
-- George Santayana		 
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
-- George Santayana		 
There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.
-- George Santayana		 
Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer: there is nobility in preserving it coolly and proudly.
-- George Santayana		 
Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
-- George Santayana		 
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-- George Santayana		 
I can't remember the exact quote but when I used to trade and Mr. Volcker was Fed chairman, he said something like 'gold is my enemy, I'm always watching what gold is doing', we need to think why he made a statement like that. If you're a central banker or one of the congressmen or senators, watch what gold is doing because this is a no-confidence vote in fiscal and dollar policy.
-- Rick Santelli		 
Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.
-- Epes Sargent		 
... political reporters love to write about politics as if they are merely disinterested observers of political events and the public's perceptions of them, when in fact they play a very key role in shaping those events and perceptions.
-- Greg Sargent		 
... political reporters love to write about politics as if they are merely disinterested observers of political events and the public's perceptions of them, when in fact they play a very key role in shaping those events and perceptions.
-- Greg Sargent		 
Freedom is the oxygen without which science cannot breathe.
-- David Sarnoff		 
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
-- William Saroyan		 
I know, both by reason and by experience, that if you ever need a gun, whether in Katmandu or Los Angeles, at that moment you will have never needed anything so badly in your life.
-- Carmine Sarracino		 
The poet must be free to love or hate as the spirit moves him, free to change, free to be a chameleon, free to be an enfant terrible. He must above all never worry about this effect on other people.
-- May Sarton		 
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned because he did not create himself, yet is nevertheless at liberty, and from the moment he is thrown into this world he is responsible for everything he does.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre		 
Man is condemned to be free.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre		 
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre		 
If politicians don't respect the law, why should citizens respect politicians?
-- Debra Saunders		 
About all a Federal Reserve note can legally do is wipe out one debt and replace it with itself another debt, a note that promises nothing. If anything's been paid, the payment occurs only in the minds of the parties...
-- Tupper Saussy		 
Most people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.
-- Robert C. Savage		 
When the People contend for their Liberty, they seldom get anything by their Victory but new masters. Power is so apt to be insolent and Liberty to be saucy, that they are very seldom upon good Terms.
-- George Savile		 
Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at.
-- George Savile		 
Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.
-- Girolamo Savonarola		 
Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made.
-- John Godfrey Saxe		 
Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?
-- Jean-Baptiste Say		 
Laissez-nous faire, laissez-nous passer. Le monde va de lui meme. (Let us do, leave us alone. The world runs by itself.)
-- French Saying		 
[T]he enshrinement of constitutional rights necessarily takes certain policy choices off the table.... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded in a society where our standing army is the pride of our Nation, where well-trained police forces provide personal security, and where gun violence is a serious problem. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
Nowhere else in the Constitution does a 'right' attributed to 'the people' refer to anything other than an individual right. What is more, in all six other provisions of the Constitution that mention 'the people,' the term unambiguously refers to all members of the political community, not an unspecified subset... The Second Amendment extends, prima facie, to all instruments that constitute bearable arms... The very text of the Second Amendment implicitly recognizes the pre-existence of the right and declares only that it ‘shall not be infringed.'
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
In the eyes of government we are just one race here. It is American.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
There is nothing new in the realization that the Constitution sometimes insulates the criminality of a few in order to protect the privacy of us all.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
As long as judges tinker with the Constitution to ‘do what the people want,’ instead of what the document actually commands, politicians who pick and confirm new federal judges will naturally want only those who agree with them politically.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
The virtue of a democratic system with a [constitutionally guaranteed right to free speech] is that it readily enables the people, over time, to be persuaded that what they took for granted is not so, and to change their laws accordingly.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
The Declaration of Independence, however, is not a legal prescription conferring powers upon the courts; and the Constitution's refusal to "deny or disparage" other rights is far removed from affirming any one of them, and even farther removed from authorizing judges to identify what they might be, and to enforce the judges' list against laws duly enacted by the people.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
We know of no other enumerated constitutional right whose core protection has been subjected to a freestanding ‘interest-balancing’ approach. The very enumeration of the right takes out of the hands of government -- even the Third Branch of Government -- the power to decide on a case-by-case basis whether the right is really worth insisting upon. A constitutional guarantee subject to future judges’ assessments of its usefulness is no constitutional guarantee at all. Constitutional rights are enshrined with the scope they were understood to have when the people adopted them, whether or not future legislatures or (yes) even future judges think that scope too broad... Undoubtedly some think that the Second Amendment is outmoded. That is perhaps debatable, but what is not debatable is that it is not the role of this Court to pronounce the Second Amendment extinct.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
The basic problem is simply that the Congress has become professionalized. It has interest much higher than ever existed before in remaining in office. It has a bureaucracy that is serving it. It is much more subject to the power of individualized pressure groups as opposed to the unorganized feelings of the majority of the citizens.
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
In Torcaso v. Watkins, (1961), we did indeed refer to ‘secular humanism’ as a ‘religion.'
-- Justice Antonin Scalia		 
If we can ever make red tape nutritional, we can feed the world.
-- Robert Schaeberle		 
No one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.
-- Leonard Schapiro		 
Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently “insiders” know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.
-- John Scharr		 

-- E Schaub		 
The Truth is not a thing. It is alive. It cannot be grasped. It is spoken.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Life is but a blink, and it matters.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Americans find it intolerable that one constitutional right should have to be surrendered in order to assert another. America is the land of the free and home of the brave -- we don't need a Patriot Act, because we are already patriots. We know freedom means responsibility, but I am not sure Congress and its domestic enforcement agencies do. More often than not, new security measures enacted by the government have resulted in more violations of the citizenry than terrorists have ever done. The terrorists want us to be afraid -- well, we are not afraid. Stop wasting dollars on this program -- it is not good for America. To give up essential liberty for a little security provides neither. The right to be left alone from government intrusion is the beginning of all freedoms.
-- Eric Schaub		 
It's worth what it's worth when it's worth it.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Speak honestly, and the truth will make itself known.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Freedom is risky. Nature makes no promises.
-- Eric Schaub		 
I cannot free another, and no one can free me. Freedom is acquired with the responsibility that sustains it.
-- Eric Schaub		 
If you want to know the big 'T' Truth, tell the little 't' truth without fail. Then listen closely to what you say.
-- Eric Schaub		 
A seeker of truth is no stranger to controversy.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Some mistakes cannot be redeemed but by forgiveness.
-- Eric Schaub		 
Truth need only be spoken.
-- Eric Schaub		 


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