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[ In response to a well-wisher who called out “Now justice will be administered in Washington” as Holmes embarked to take his seat on the U.S. Supreme Court, 1902 :] Don’t be too sure. I am going there to administer the law .

 

The New Yale Book of Quotations

[ Of Franklin D. Roosevelt, after meeting him when Holmes was in his nineties and Roosevelt had just become president, 1933 :] A second-class intellect, but a first-class temperament.

 

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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A constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory. . . . It is made for people of fundamentally differing views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar or novel and even shocking ought not to conclude our judgment upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States.

 

The New Yale Book of Quotations

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A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or, to vary the figure, a strategic point in the campaign of history, and part of his greatness consists in his being there.
A man’s opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.
A mellowing rigorist is always a much pleasanter object to contemplate than a tightening liberal, as a cold day warming up to 32° Fahrenheit is much more agreeable than a warm one chilling down to the same temperature.
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time.
A person of genius should marry a person of character. Genius does not herd with genius.
A poet on Pegasus, reciting his own verses, is hardly more to be dreaded than a mounted specialist.

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