“If they be like to die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population.” - Ebenezer Scrooge
[The elderly have] a duty to die and get out of the way... so that our kids can build a reasonable life." - [former] Colorado governor Richard Lamm
Chesterton on birth control/population control:
In 1925 Chesterton wrote an introduction to Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol in which he said that The answer to anyone who talks about the surplus population is to ask him, whether he is part of the surplus population; or if not, how he knows he is not.