OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES JR.
This is a precursor to the famous JFK inaugural address quotation. See also, Khalil Gibran {601423} and Warren G. Harding {622594} and {629021}.
The phrase is carved above the entrance to the IRS Headquarters in Washington DC
Referring to Franklin Delano Roosevelt:
See Daniel Webster and John Marshall for earlier expressions of this famous quotation: {37299} and {320000}. Also, Maurice L. Duplessis {600341} for a contrary view.
The “all deliberate speed” phrase later was used in Brown v. Board of Education, 1954.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, concise and pithy opinions, and deference to the decisions of elected legislatures, he is one of the most widely cited United States Supreme Court justices in history, particularly for opinions on civil liberties and American constitutional democracy, and is one of the most influential American common law judges, honored during his lifetime in Great Britain as well as the United States. Holmes retired from the court at the age of 90, an unbeaten record for oldest justice in the federal Supreme Court (although John Paul Stevens was only 8 months younger when he retired on April 12, 2010). He previously served as an Associate Justice and as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and was Weld Professor of Law at his alma mater, Harvard Law School.
