Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Competition

Quotes about: Competition

• The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Acceptance, Ideas, Competition

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

• But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Truth, Believe, Fighting

  Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

• Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Competition, Cost

  "Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92, 44 N.E. 1077, 1080". Voicing the opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, 1896.

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