Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.'s Popular Quotes

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.

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

- 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.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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

- 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.

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

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.