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==Rights==
 
==Rights==
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Holmes was not a fan of human rights. “All my life I have sneered at the natural rights of man,” he wrote Laski.<ref>Holmes to Laski, August 6, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 96</ref> “You respect the rights of man,” he wrote. “I don't, except those things a given crowd will fight for.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, June 1, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 2] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 948 (PDF p. 148)</ref> Elsewhere, he wrote that human rights are merely what a given crowd will fight for “successfully.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, December 3, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 115</ref>
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Holmes was not a fan of human rights. “All my life I have sneered at the natural rights of man,” he wrote socialist<ref>Gary Dean Best, ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=YDusnza0zTcC Harold Laski and American Liberalism]'' (New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2005) ISBN 076580266X, p. 5</ref> Harold Laski.<ref>Holmes to Laski, August 6, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 96</ref> “You respect the rights of man,” he wrote. “I don't, except those things a given crowd will fight for.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, June 1, 1927, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://ia331339.us.archive.org/1/items/holmeslaskilette017767mbp/holmeslaskilette017767mbp.pdf Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 2] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 948 (PDF p. 148)</ref> Elsewhere, he wrote that human rights are merely what a given crowd will fight for “successfully.”<ref>Holmes to Laski, December 3, 1917, reprinted in Mark De Wolfe Howe, ed., ''[http://books.google.com/books?id=q_MfA5IcTxoC Holmes-Laski Letters: The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes and Harold J. Laski, 1916-1935'', Volume 1] (Harvard University Press, 1953), p. 115</ref>
    
===Free Speech===
 
===Free Speech===
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