Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER:
1006
AUTHOR:
Oliver Wendell Holmes (18411935)
QUOTATION:
It cannot be helped, it is as it should be, that the law is behind the times.
ATTRIBUTION:
Justice OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, speech at Harvard Law School Association of New York, New York City, February 15, 1913.Speeches by Oliver Wendell Holmes, p. 101 (1934).