197 Quotes by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy.

if one of two or more joint wrongdoers has to pay all the damages, he cannot recover contribution from his fellows.

The first requirement of a sound body of law is, that it should correspond with the actual feelings and demands of the community, whether right or wrong.

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve.

I like to pay taxes. With them, I buy civilization.

I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creed, there is one thing I do not doubt and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan or campaign of which he has no notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

Between two groups of people who want to make inconsistent kinds of worlds, I see no remedy but force.

I believe that there are no innate, intrinsic differences among a human being , a baboon or a grain of sand.