Any tax is a discouragement and therefore a regulation so far as it goes.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of the race.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

My right to swing my fist ends where your nose begins.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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…

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

This is a court of law, not a court of justice.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.