Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes
The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.
To have doubted one’s own first principles, is the first mark of a civilized man.
Taxes are what we pay for civilized society… A penalty on the other hand is intended altogether to prevent the thing punished.
I do not pin my dreams for the future to my country or even my race. I think it probable that civilization somehow will last as long as I care to look ahead.
Pretty much all the honest truth telling in the world is done by children.
It cannot be said that by common experience the character of most people indicted by a grand jury is good.
Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Certitude is not the test of certainty.
General propositions do not decide concrete cases.
