If you want to know the law and nothing else, you must look at it as a bad man, who cares only for the material consequences which such knowledge enables him to predict, not as a good one, who finds his reasons for conduct, whether inside the law or outside of it, in the vaguer sanctions of conscience.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was us supreme court justice from 1902 to 1932. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. was an American jurist who served as an associate justice of the U.S. Read more on Wikipedia →