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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.


— 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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