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" But when men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths, they may come to believe even more than they believe the very foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas, — that the best... "
Lobby Reform Legislation: Hearings Before the Committee on Government ... - Page 478
by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1976 - 841 pages
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The Idea of Property: Its Meaning and Power

Laura S. Underkuffler - 2003 - 216 pages
...States, 250 US 616, 630 (1919) (Holmes, J., dissenting) (constitutionally protected free speech assumes that 'the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market'). In Thomas Emerson's famous formulation, freedom...
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Outspoken: Free Speech Stories

Nan Levinson - 2003 - 388 pages
...States, 150 US 616 (1919), "that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Holmes was in the minority here; the majority...
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History of American Political Thought

Bryan-Paul Frost, Jeffrey Sikkenga - 2003 - 852 pages
...as the social Darwinist. "[T]he ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Holmes expanded the political venue for the...
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The Wheel of Law: India's Secularism in Comparative Constitutional Context

Gary J. Jacobsohn - 2003 - 352 pages
...A contrast between Holmes and Lincoln is worth pondering. Holmes wrote in his famous Abrams dissent that "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Abrams at 630. Inasmuch as the Constitution...
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Laboratory of Justice: The Supreme Court's 200-Year Struggle to Integrate ...

David L. Faigman - 2004 - 440 pages
...foundations of their own conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought...itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is...
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The Wages of Impunity: Power, Justice, and Human Rights

K. G. Kannabiran - 2004 - 396 pages
...faiths. They may come to believe that the ultimate good is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought...itself accepted in the competition of the market, and truth is the only ground upon which their wishes can be carried out. That at any rate is the theory...
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Language, Symbols, And the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the ...

Robert E. Denton - 244 pages
...theirown conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas—that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is...
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Language, Symbols, And the Media: Communication in the Aftermath of the ...

Robert E. Denton - 244 pages
...conduct that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — (hat the best lest of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market, and that truth is the only ground upon which their wishes safely can be carried out. That at any rate is...
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Freedom: A History of US

Joy Hakim - 2003 - 438 pages
...it a First Amendment issue. The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas — that the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. . . . That at any rate is the theory of the Constitution....
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Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the ...

Geoffrey R. Stone - 2004 - 758 pages
...judiciary can and should do. UFRKMK COURT AND VlKTNAM: FKCT ENDING TO A IJONG STORY"? HOLMES WROTE THAT "the best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Perhaps the best evidence of that proposition...
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