Occupation: Former Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States Birth: March 8, 1841 Death: March 6, 1935
The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience..
Taxes are the price we pay for a civilized society..
These are the hands whose sturdy labor brings The peasant's food, the golden pomp of kings; This is the page whose letters shall be seen, Changed by ….
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists..
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs..
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….
We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to..
People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail..
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….
Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one..
War? War is an organized bore..
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..
General propositions do not decide concrete cases. The decision will depend on a judgment or intuition more subtle than any articulate major premise..
Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force..
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 ….
There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young!.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man..
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe..
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it..
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling ac….