Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841–1935) United States Supreme Court justice
250 U.S. at 628.
1910s, Abrams v. United States, 250 U.S. 616 (1919)
“Nothing was or is farther from my intentions, than to enlist myself as the champion of a fixed opinion, where I have only expressed doubt.”
Letter to Joel Barlow (8 October 1809); Jefferson here expresses an aversion to supporting the "fixed opinion" that blacks were not equal to whites in general mental capacities, which he asserts in his Notes on the State of Virginia he had advanced as "a suspicion only".
1800s, Post-Presidency (1809)
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