We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Tag: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas [and] the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving — we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it — but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done.