We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

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As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

As life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should...

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

Carve every word before you let it fall.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no...

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you...

You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours.

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

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

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you...

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

Nothing is so commonplace has the wish to be remarkable.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is...

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil...

Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged...