“All the history of human life has been a struggle between wisdom and stupidity.”
Source: The Amber Spyglass
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Twenty Years of Mr. Justice Holmes' Constitutional Opinions, 36 HARV. L. REV. 909, 931 (1923).
Other writings

Source: The Complete Essays
"Reversing Established Orders", p. 402
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms (1998)

Parliament of Whores (1991)
Context: Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race. All through history mankind has been bullied by scum. Those who lord it over their fellows and toss commands in every direction and would boss the grass in the meadows about which way to bend in the wind are the most depraved kind of prostitutes. They will submit to any indignity, perform any vile act, do anything to achieve power. The worst off-sloughings of the planet are the ingredients of sovereignty. Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.

“Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.”
Source: Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

Medical Ministry (1932), p. 133

Speech in Paisley (6 February 1920), quoted in Speeches by The Earl of Oxford and Asquith, K.G. (London: Hutchinson & Co., 1927), p. 265
Later life

How to Ace an Exam, The American Spectator, 15 December 2004 http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=7511,], 2006-11-19]