Occupation: Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: March 8, 1841 Death: March 6, 1935
The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in….
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail..
The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs..
Liberty is often a heavy burden on a man. It involves the necessity for perpetual choice which is the kind of labor men have always dreaded..
We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of living, and though the condemned cell of our earthly existence is but a narrow and bare d….
The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part..
War? War is an organized bore..
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to..
The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst ….
If wine tells truth - and so have said the wise, It makes me laugh to think how brandy lies!.
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 fre….
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….
The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future..
There are three natural anaesthetics: Sleep, fainting, and death..
Young feller, you will never appreciate the potentialities of the English language until you have heard a Southern mule driver search the soul of a m….
The riders in a race do not stop when they reach the goal. There is a little finishing canter before coming to a standstill. There is time to hear th….
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 ….
Men, like peaches and pears, grow sweet a little while before they begin to decay..
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of..
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs..
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one..