Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Quotes by Famous Americans Past and Present
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes Click here for Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr books The Legacy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (Jurists: Profiles in Legal Theory) "Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening." "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." "It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime, or to let them starve for their imbecility, society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind." "The power to tax is not the power to destroy while this Court sits." "This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.” "We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.” "Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” "Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think.” "What is truth is what I can't help believing." "Men must turn square corners when they deal with the
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