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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes

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 principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough Picture Quote #1

Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility Picture Quote #1

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true Picture Quote #1

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in Picture Quote #1

I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world Picture Quote #1

Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other? Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part Picture Quote #1

General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise Picture Quote #1

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic Picture Quote #1

The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is Picture Quote #1

The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar Picture Quote #1

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The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up Picture Quote #1

The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards Picture Quote #1

Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so Picture Quote #1

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived Picture Quote #1

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving Picture Quote #1

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command Picture Quote #1

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To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old Picture Quote #1

To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view Picture Quote #1

I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does Picture Quote #1

We see what you are driving at, but you have not said it, and therefore we shall go on as before Picture Quote #1

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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 principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Modesty and reverence are no less virtues of freemen than the democratic feeling which will submit neither to arrogance nor to servility (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) I confess that altruistic and cynically selfish talk seem to me about equally unreal. With all humility, I think whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might, infinitely more important than the vain attempt to love one’s neighbor as one’s self. If you want to hit a bird on the wing you must have all your will in focus, you must not be thinking about yourself, and equally, you must not be thinking about your neighbor; you must be living with your eye on that bird. Every achievement is a bird on the wing (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) The thing I want to do is put as many new ideas into the law as I can, to show how particular solutions involve general theory, and to do it with style. I should like to be admitted to be the greatest jurist in the world (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Why should you row a boat race? Why endure the long months of pain in preparation for a fierce half hour that will leave you all but dead? Does anyone ask the question? Is there anyone who would not go through all the costs, and more, for the moment when anguish breaks into triumph or even for the glory of having nobly lost? Is life less than a boat race? If a man will give the blood in his body to win the one, will he spend all the might of his soul to prevail in the other? (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) 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 Quotes) For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power. The prize of the general is not a bigger tent, but command (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) To be seventy years young is sometimes for more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) 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 (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) I happen to prefer champagne to ditchwater, but there is no reason to suppose that the cosmos does (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) We see what you are driving at, but you have not said it, and therefore we shall go on as before (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes)

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