Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Opportunity, Law, Justice

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

• This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Law, Justice, Court

• The joy of life is to put out one's power in some natural and useful or harmless way. There is no other. And the real misery is not to do this.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Real, Justice, Diversity

• Every idea is an incitement. It offers itself for belief, and if believed it is acted on unless some other belief outweighs it or some failure of energy stifles the movement at its birth. The only difference between the expression of an opinion and an incitement is the speaker's enthusiasm for the result.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Expression, Ideas, Differences

• 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)

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