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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time, at the peril of being not to have lived.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Beware how you take away hope from any human being.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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About Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.






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It would be strange if it could not call upon those who already sap the strength of the State for these lesser sacrifices often not felt to be such by those concerned to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. He is remembered for prescient opinions on topics as widely separated as copyright the law of contempt the antitrust status of professional baseball and the oath required for citizenship. In 1870 Holmes became an editor of the American Law Review edited a new edition of Kent's Commentaries on American Law in 1873 and publiOliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.d numerous articles on the common law.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. His jurisprudence influenced much subsequent American legal thinking including judicial consensus supporting New Deal regulatory law pragmatism critical legal studies and law and economics. " During his tenure on the Supreme Court to which he was appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt he supported efforts for economic regulation and advocated broad freedom of speech under the First Amendment.

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