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Adam Cohen, author of Imbeciles, a book on the 1927 Buck v Bell case, stopped short of calling the judge in Tennessee an eugenicist, but said the programme itself comes dangerously close.

From BBC • Aug. 17, 2017

"Of course," suggested Hopkins, "you devoted them to the cause of charity; subscribed all but your just due to the House for Imbeciles, in which that wronged unfortunate the plaintiff was incarcerated?"

From Toppleton's Client or, A Spirit in Exile by Bangs, John Kendrick

Imbeciles dominate, it is true, but there is a public conscience which weighs on them and obliges them to respect the right.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel

Imbeciles say: "My doctor has extricated my aunt from a mortal malady; he has made my aunt live ten years longer than she ought to have lived."

From Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary by Voltaire

"Imbeciles tell each other that great men think alike," Jones, interrupting, remarked at Dunwoodie.

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar