Your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man's nose begins.
Various permutations of this quote have been attributed to Holmes, but its was actually written by Zechariah Chafee, "Freedom of Speech in Wartime", 32 Harvard Law Review 932, 957 (1919).
( example of Misattributed version: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said, “The right to swing my fist ends where the other man’s nose begins.” )
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