When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe... that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas-- that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment. As all life is an experiment. Every year if not every day we wager our salvation upon some prophecy based upon imperfect knowledge.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Beware how you take away hope from any human being.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
Have the courage to act instead of react. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Have the courage to act instead of react.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, t… - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, t…
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.
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