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  • [The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.

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  • 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 for the thought that we hate.

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    United States v. Schwimmer (dissenting opinion) (1929)

  • But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe...that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market... That at any rate is the theory of our constitution.

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    Abrams v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1919)

  • The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

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    "Gompers v. United States, 233 U.S. 604, 610". Judicial opinion, 1914.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  • Born: March 8, 1841
  • Died: March 6, 1935
  • Occupation: Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
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