Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes - Page 2

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• Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving.

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  Moving, Important

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• While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.

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  Heart, Age, Youth

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• Eloquence may set fire to reason.

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  Fire, May, Reason

  "Gitlow v. People of New York, 268 U.S. 652". Judicial opinion, 1925.

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• If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.

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  Law, Sawdust, Ifs

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• The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command.

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  Powerful, Prize

  "Law and the Court". Speech at a dinner of the Harvard Law School Association of New York, library.law.harvard.edu. February 15, 1913.

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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

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  Funny, Women, Humorous

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• Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.

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  Life, Art, Pain

  "The Class of '61" (speech), Cambridge, Mass., 28 June 1911

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• The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

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  Men, Fire, Liberty

  Schenck v. United States (1919).

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• The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.

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  Life, Character, Done

  "Schenck v. United States, 249 U.S. 52". Judicial opinion, 1919.

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• Every calling is great when greatly pursued.

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  God, Spiritual, Life And Love

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• Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
  take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
  the bottom out of their boat.

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  Rip, Mean, Intelligence

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• Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.

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  Death, Doors, People

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• Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society.

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  Paying Taxes, Civilized Society, Pay

  "Compania General De Tabacos De Filipinas v. Collector of Internal Revenue, 275 U.S. 87, 100". Dissenting opinion, November 21, 1927.

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• Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.

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  Truth, Children, Lying

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• To an imagination of any scope the most far reaching form of power is not money, it is the command of ideas

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  Ideas, Imagination, Reaching

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (2009). “The Path of the Law”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy - I don't disparage envy, but I don't accept it as legitimately my master.

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  Passion, Equality, Envy

  "Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916 - 1935". Book by Mark De Wolfe Howe, Volume 2, p. 942, 1953.

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• Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

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  Funny, Humor, Years

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

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  Two, People, Groups

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• The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

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  Government, Essence, Growth

  "Gompers v. United States, 233 U.S. 604, 610". Judicial opinion, 1914.

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• Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

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  Three, Generations, Imbeciles

  Buck v. Bell (1927)

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• Pretty much all law consists in forbidding men to do something that they want to do.

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  Men, Law, Want

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• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

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  Inspiring, Teamwork, Motivation

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• A person of genius should marry a person of character.

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  Character, Genius, Talent

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• Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

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  Real, Thinking, Wind

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• Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.

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  Opportunity, Law, Justice

  "Frank v. Magnum, 237 U.S. 309, 347". Judicial opinion, 1915.

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