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Quote from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.,


This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.



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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (more quotes by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. or books by/about Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.)


(1841-1935) US Supreme Court Justice, also known as "The Great Dissenter"

Source:

Martin Yant, Presumed Guilty: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted 11 (1991) (quoting Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.)

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Justice, Law

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