Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes was the name of two prominent men, father and son:...
fall communication speech
Carve every word before you let it fall.
certainty has-beens certitude
We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
competition cost
Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.
law sky voice
The common law is not a brooding omnipresence in the sky, but the articulate voice of some sovereign or quasi sovereign that can be identified; although some decisions with which I have disagreed seem to me to have forgotten the fact.
opportunity law justice
Whatever disagreement there may be as to the scope of the phrase "due process of law" there can be no doubt that it embraces the fundamental conception of a fair trial, with opportunity to be heard.
believe denial world
The world has its fling at lawyers sometimes, but its very denial is an admission. It feels, what I believe to be the truth, that of all secular professions this has the highest standards.
men minorities locks
The individual will always be a minority. If a man is in a minority of one, we lock him up.
book reading ideas
The ideas of the classics, so far as living, are our commonplaces. It is the modern books that give us the latest and most profound conceptions. It seems to me rather a lazy makeshift to mumble over the familiar.
acquisition satisfaction gains
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science?
war bores organized
War? War is an organized bore.
thinking play government
For my part I think it is a less evil that some criminals should escape, than that the government should play an ignoble part.
veterans-day military war
Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.
boston president realizing
It takes me several days, after I get back to Boston, to realize that the reference "the president" refers to the president of Harvard and not to a minor official in Washington.
past race hands
There is nothing like the dead cold hand of the past to take down our tumid egotism and lead us into the solemn flow of the life of our race.