A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of intellectual growth and discovery clearly demonstrates the need for unfettered freedom, the right to think the unthinkable, discuss the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The history of what the law has been is necessary to the knowledge of what the law is. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history of the moral development of… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ... they signify… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
On every stem, on every leaf,... and at the root of everything that grew, was a professional specialist in the shape of grub, caterpillar,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
A good soldier, like a good horse, cannot be of a bad color. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
