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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes

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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 Quotes) A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Courts are apt to err by sticking too closely to the words of a law where those words import a policy that goes beyond them  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The interpretation of constitutional principles must not be too literal. We must remember that the machinery of government would not work if it were not allowed a little play in its joints  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil who has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) Life is action, the use of one’s powers. As to use them to their height is our joy and duty, so it is the one end that justifies itself  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) It is better to have a line drawn somewhere in the penumbra between darkness and light, than to remain in uncertainty  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The law, wherein, as in a magic mirror, we see reflected, not only our own lives, but the lives of all men that have been!  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) The prophecies of what the courts will do in fact, and nothing more pretentious, are what I mean by the law  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) It is said that this manifesto is more than a theory, that it was an incitement. Every idea is an incitement  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes) I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions and that no general proposition is worth a damn  (Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr Quotes)
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