“As I grow older I grow calm. If I feel what are perhaps an old man's apprehensions, that competition from new races will cut deeper than working men's disputes and will test whether we can hang together or can fight.”

—  Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

1910s, "Law and the Court" (1913)

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