Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Quotes
You can hire logic, in the shape of a lawyer, to prove anything that you want to prove.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1809-1894, Author and Physician, Father of the Supreme Court Justice, The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
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He was an Iraq War veteran who retired to protest the competency of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Rumsfeld and the George W, Bush administration did not like the intelligence estimates of all the established intelligence agencies as it did not connect Sadaam Hussein with the Al Queada terrorists and thus justify an invasion of Iraq. So they set up a new intelligence unit in the DOD to “investigate” this issue.
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.
