Answers to Who Said It?

A quiz, courtesy of the Potter Stewart of famous quotations

1. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. LL.B. 1866, Schenck v. United States (1919)
2. Felix Frankfurter LL.B. 1906, Dennis v. United States (dissenting opinion) (1950)
3. James Russell Lowell LL.B. 1840, “The Vision of Sir Launfal” (1848)
4. Owen Wister LL.B. 1888, “The Virginian” (1902)
5. Zechariah Chafee Jr. LL.B. 1913, Harvard Law Review (June 1919)
6. Joseph H. Choate LL.B. 1902, quoted in Arthur Train’s (LL.B. 1899), “Mr. Tutt Comes Home” (1941)
7. Adlai E. Stevenson 1922-1924, speech accepting presidential nomination (July 26, 1952)
8. Joseph N. Welch LL.B. 1917, remark to Sen. Joseph McCarthy (June 9, 1954)

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