“One has to try to strike the jugular and let the rest go.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Speech on the death of Walbridge Abner Field, Chief Justice of Massachusetts (25 November 1899), reported in Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1900), p. 77.
1900s

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United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

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