Quote of The Day: Justice Holmes

[beset]

Consistency is the hobgoblin of inferior minds

[EarlLee]

In Buck v. Bell, Holmes wrote the majority opinion that upheld the validity of forced sterilization of mentally retarded women. His justification was that. . . "Three generations of imbeciles is enough."

[slickpoppa]

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Consistency is the hobgoblin of inferior minds

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Holmes may have said that, but the original quote is from Self Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson. And the exact quote is: "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds"