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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.


— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.


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Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.


— 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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