Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes - Page 2

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  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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• If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Enemy, Favors, Trouble

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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Inspiring, Teamwork, Motivation

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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Faith, Dying, Would Be

  Letter to John Ching Hsiung Wu in 1924. "Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers". Book by Harry Clair Shriver, p. 175, 1936.

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

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  Book, Reading, Heart

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• Man has will, but woman has her way.

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  Funny, Women, Humorous

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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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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Death, Doors, People

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

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  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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• Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Always Trying, Society, Grind

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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

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Ideas, Imagination, Reaching

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

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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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• Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded.

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  Men, Choices, Liberty

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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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• 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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Rip, Mean, Intelligence

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

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  Character, Genius, Talent

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• Certitude is not the test of certainty.

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  Learning, Tests, Certainty

  Harvard Law Review Natural Law Volume 32, Number 1, November 1918 (p. 40)

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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.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Opportunity, Law, Justice

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

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