One of the best things people could do for their descendents would be to sharply limit the number of them.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The human overpopulation issue is the topic I see as the most vital to solve if our children and grandchildren are to have a good quality of life.
It has been said that a man of genius should select his ancestors with great care - and yet there does not seem to be as much in heredity as most people think. The children of the great are often small.
I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
My grandmother gave birth to 13 children and I come from a long line of women who gave birth in their 40s.
My grandfather would live to see his children become doctors and ministers, accounts and professors.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
We must speed up the time table for fathers, brothers and sons to provide their mothers, daughters and sisters with the same opportunities that they give themselves.
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.