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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

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

From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar

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

"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 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