Oliver Holmes

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Born	March 8, 1841 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	August 6, 1935 Washington, D.C.

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1902-1932. Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court 1899-1902, Associate Justice 1882-1899.

The repository contains two quotes from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr..

Classics

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

Schenck v. United States (249 U.S. 47)
March 3, 1919

Self

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.