Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr (1841 - 1935), son of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. was an American jurist and legal scholar. He served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932.

Wisdom & Quotes

• The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man from falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing panic.

- Schenck v. US, 1919

• Great cases like hard cases make bad law.

- Northern Securities Co. v. US, 1904

• The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.

- The Common Law

• Oh, to be seventy again! (At age 92, upon seeing a pretty, young woman)

- attributed

• Truth is tough.

- The Professor at the Breakfast Table

George Clemenceau