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The Fourteenth Amendment was adopted with a view to the protection of the colored race, but has been found to be equally important in its application to the rights of all.
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes 21-23 out of 23
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