Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic.”
“Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.”
“A page of history is worth a volume of logic.”
“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war.”
“I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization.”
“The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience.”