Father and Son............

"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."

"Don't be 'consistent' but be simply true."

"We are all sentenced to capital punishment for the crime of
living."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), the father
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"On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who
affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the
saints who deny it."

"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more
imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the
principle of free thought - not free thought for those who
agree with us but freedom of thought for the thought that
we hate."

"The character of every act depends on the circumstances
in which it was done........The most stringent protection of
free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting
fire in a theatre and causing a panic."

-Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935), the son