The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.
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Aphorisms by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The degree of civilization which a people has reached, no doubt, is marked by their anxiety to do as they would be done by.
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As for us, our days of combat are over. Our swords are rust. Our guns will thunder no more. The vultures that once wheeled over our heads must be buried with their prey. Whatever of glory must be won in the council or the closet, never again in the field. I do not repine. We have shared the incommunicable experience of war; we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top.
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If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
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Gentlemen, to the lady without whom I should never have survived for eighty, nor sixty, nor yet thirty years. Her smile has been my lyric, her understanding, the rhythm of the stanza. She has been the spring wherefrom I have drawn the power to write the words. She is the poem of my life.
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One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered that I was not God.
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The general rule, at least, is that while property may be regulated to a certain extent, if regulation goes too far it will be recognized as a taking.
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The major premise of the conclusion expressed in a statute, the change of policy that induces the enactment, may not be set out in terms, but it is not an adequate discharge of duty for courts to say: We see what you are driving at, but you have not said it, and therefore we shall go on as before.
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For the rational study of the law the blackletter man may be the man of the present, but the man of the future is the man of statistics and the master of economics.
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