Civil liberties Quote by Richard Maxwell Brown

“Madam, there is no treachery in the truth. There may be pain, but to face honestly all possible conclusions formed by a set of…

— Laurie R. King

“One should always look for a possible alternative, and provide against it. -Sherlock Holmes”

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - all brain... and that's very…

— Jeremy Brett

“We're at close grips at last," said Holmes as we walked together across the moor. "What a nerve the fellow has! How he pulled…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The lesson Holmes took from the war can be put in a sentence. It is that certitude leads to violence.”

— Louis Menand

“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor…

— Dan Rather

“I had no keener pleasure than in following Holmes in his professional investigations, and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

[Oliver Wendell] Holmes never believed in the truth and morality of the laws he was upholding. He said, "I loathe the thick-fingered clowns we…

— Jeffrey Rosen

“Watson is a cheap, efficient little sod of a literary device. Holmes doesn't need him to solve crimes any more than he needs a…

— Graham Moore

“A helpful exercise is to describe the situation from the beginning, either out loud or in writing, as if to a stranger who isn’t…

— Maria Konnikova

“Holmes writes, “…I also would fight for some things—but instead of saying that they ought to be I merely say they are part of…

— Louis Menand

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be…

— Arthur Conan Doyle