Oliver wendell holmes

Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

The only prize much cared for by the powerful is power.

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

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...

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but...

The Amen of nature is always a flower.