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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

American jurist (1841–1935); US Supreme Court justice from 1902 to 1932

1841–1935

35 quotes, most often on Laws, Government and Life & Death.

If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate.
Often credited to Oliver Wendell Holmes
- America
- Thinking
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.
‘The Path of the Law’, address at Boston University School of Law (8 January 1897)
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