...was that of an intellectual and a liberal. Holmes said the First Amendment did not protect Schenck: The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. . . . The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of...

...constitutional rights. But the character of every act depends upon the circumstances in which it is done. . . . The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre, and causing a panic. According to Holmes, "[t]he question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances...

...welfare, safety, or morals of others. In 1919, US Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., wrote: 'The most stringent protection of free speech would...falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic." A person may be denied a civil right if that right is used to violate other people's rights. Freedom...

...phrase "clear and present danger" and probably also with Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's caution that "the most stringent protection of free speech would...protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre . . ." (Schenck v. United States, 1919), many, if asked, would assume that Holmes's memorable rhetoric...

...no citation more than ten years old. Whenever I wrote the word "speech" the pen, on its own, wrote "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." In writing personal letters the pen was relaxed and informal. The pen...

...of this are defamation and interference with the right to a fair trial. 4. As Justice Holmes said, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic."' 5. One person may through an act of expression contribute to the production...

...circumstances under which the expression is undertaken. He offered his frequently quoted observation that even the most stringent protection of free speech "would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater and causing a panic" (52). Having established a situational context for evaluating...

...every act depends upon the circumstances in which it was done." Holmes then employed a famous metaphor. "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic." Likewise in a time of war, when presumably the nation's security was...

...effortlessly.20 The criminal is to go free because the constable has blundered. — Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. [This is one of the most widely quoted and misquoted pieces of jurisprudence;...

...the most widely quoted statement from any Supreme Court cases. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "the most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a crowded theater." Schenck was prosecuted for distributing antidraft material. Enduring concept of the...