Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932, and as Acting Chief Justice of the United States January–February 1930. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions and his deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for his "clear and present danger" opinion for a...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth8 March 1841
CountryUnited States of America
Reason may be the lever, but sentiment gives you the fulcrum and the place to stand on if you want to move the world.
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.
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.
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Every calling is great when greatly pursued.
Deep-seated preferences cannot be argued about-you cannot argue a man into liking a glass of beer.
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.
But the word "right" is one of the most deceptive of pitfalls; it is so easy to slip from a qualified meaning in the premise to an unqualified one in the conclusion. Most rights are qualified.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.