WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:46:05 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg market place of ideas – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. -- Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616, 630 (1919) [Dissent] https://wist.info/holmes-jr-oliver-wendell/1941/ https://wist.info/holmes-jr-oliver-wendell/1941/#respond Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/wp/?p=1941 When men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market.


Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935) American jurist, Supreme Court Justice
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