Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• I think that we should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe and believe to be fraught with death, unless they so imminently threaten immediate interference with the lawful and pressing purposes of the law that an immediate check is required to save the country.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Country, Believe, Thinking

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S., 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

• A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Opinion, Argument

• In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds and foundations of all rational decisions.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  People, Decision, Foundation

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Science, Expression, Advice

  "Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. at 630". Dissenting opinion, November 10, 1919.

• 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

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