Scenes from a life Jun 21, 2008
He spent August 1865, when he was 22, in North Conway, New Hampshire, with his cousin Minny Temple and her sisters; they were joined by Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr and John Gray, both civil war veterans, who admired Minny and grew to love her. James's early story "Poor Richard" (1867) dealt with three men, two of them war veterans, one ill, who admire a single brilliant woman. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Jun 20, 2008
He is often grouped with his famed New England literary contemporaries like Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry W. Longfellow, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. However, because of poverty, he did not have a formal college education. (Suite101.com)
MLB's replay plan needs review Jun 18, 2008
Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said tough cases make bad law because they are not the norm. Using calls that were clearly wrong as the catalyst to institute video review may result in bad rules for baseball. (USA Today -- Sports)
Owners Manual For The United States - Just in time for the 4th of July! Jun 17, 2008
Also included are other noted Supreme Court Justices, including Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, Hugo Black, William Douglas, William Brennan, Thurgood Marshall, and Harry Blackmun ... Oliver Wendell Holmes. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Jurist's career of firsts hits a milestone Jun 16, 2008
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
War Powers Why This Court Keeps Rebuking This President Jun 15, 2008
War opens dangers that do not exist at other times, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once wrote. He had earlier been the author of the Supreme Court s unanimous opinion in a 1919 case upholding the conviction of radicals who had published an antidraft pamphlet during World War I. When a nation is at war, the opinion said, many things that might be said in time of peace are such a hindrance to its effort that no court could regard them as protected by any constitutional right. (New York Times)
Free speeh, eh? Why is Canada prosecuting Mark Steyn? Jun 14, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court has generally agreed with jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes that the right to swing your fist stops at the beginning of the other guy's nose. To paraphrase Nat Hentoff's anti-censorship treatise Free Speech For Me, But Not For Thee, offensive speech in this country ought to be combated with more speech. (CBC.ca)
Roger Cohen: Bush does Europe incognito Jun 12, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes described President Franklin D. Roosevelt as "a second-class intellect but a first-rate temperament." His endless malapropisms have made Bush's intellect the object of ridicule. But his mind was not the problem. (International Herald Tribune)
Investor's Edge Jun 2, 2008
I'm going to ignore the pundits and take the advice of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Prophesy as much as you like, but always hedge.". Q. Is alternative energy a good equity investment. (Syracuse.com)
Berkman expected to take the stand today May 28, 2008
Goldstick replied that he was citing a quote -- from Ralph Waldo Emerson to famous jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. "All I meant was that, because of Craig Berkman's social, political and business prominence, we needed to be on firm ground legally," Goldstick said. (OregonLive, OR -- Business)
GRADUATION 2008: Last words from '08 May 28, 2008
As Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, "Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. The chain may lengthen, but it never parts.". JOY CHOI. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The fallen live on May 26, 2008
IN 1884, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Civil War veteran and Supreme Court justice-to-be, gave perhaps the most famous Memorial Day speech. "To us who remain behind is left this day," he said as he summoned to mind his comrades from Massachusetts who had perished 20 years before. (Boston Globe)
Remembering Emerson May 23, 2008
In his famous "American Scholar" address at Harvard University in 1837, he declared American intellectual independence from the Old World: "We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds." By the time he joined Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes at Boston's Parker House Hotel in 1857 to plan for the publication of a new magazine (The Atlantic Monthly), he was secure in his reputation as the Sage of Concord, and... (The Atlantic Online)
Random Thoughts May 20, 2008
The great Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said that a good catchword could stop people from thinking for 50 years. The big catchword this election year is "change"-- and it has already stopped many people's thinking in its tracks. (Townhall.com)
McCain's Supreme wrongheadedness May 14, 2008
"If my fellow citizens want to go to Hell," declared Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, a staunch advocate of judicial restraint, "I will help them. It's my job.". It was a clever remark - but a poor recipe for sustaining the Framers' system of checks and balances, or defending important liberty interests against political encroachment. (Boston Globe)
The hand that rocks the cradle May 13, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; a mother s secret hope outlives them all. At times, mothers are pictured as angels with wings or as goddesses; however, I would rather see an everyday mother, without divine wings or supernatural power, who undertakes all the challenges dished out to her by fate and the world and stands unwaveringly to raise her children with confidence, patience and everlasting, unconditional love. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Energy drink side effects worry schools May 12, 2008
Ask a group of McClatchy High School students what they're drinking and they'll shout out their favorite energy drinks: "Monster!" "Rockstar!" "Boo Koo!" "Go Girls!" Or stop by Nugget Market in Davis on a Wednesday morning and witness adolescents drinking Red Bulls and Monsters before heading to Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior High School, where the drinks have been banned from campus. In the past 12 months, the California Poison Control System has handled 26 calls about dangerous reactions to... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Mother's Day May 11, 2008
"Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; a mother's secret hope outlives them all." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes. "To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power." -- Maya Angelou. (NJ.com -- Times)
11 Things: Mother's Day May 8, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Youth fades; love droops; the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all.". Mom: "My secret hope is that you'll make your bed someday.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
There's no reason we should pay more taxes Apr 22, 2008
cross1242 wrote on Apr 20, 2008 1:44 PM:" This week, Prof. Clayson discusses taxes. Perusing through his column, we learn that: (1) Taxes neednt be increased. (In the headline but never mentioned again.) (2) Payroll taxes are bad. People should just pay everything on April 15th. (3) All taxes amount to confiscation. (4) Free exchanges create wealth; forced exchanges destroy wealth. (5) All government is incompetent and corrupt. In the end, the only conclusions that can be made from that... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Some things that need looking at Apr 22, 2008
(Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court justice). A plan must be very clear about landowners rights. (Bismarck Tribune, ND)
South Amenia church restores historic stained glass window Apr 18, 2008
These have the theme of men and women of letters and include authors such as Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes. During the 1930s Depression years, the Howards opened their farmhouse home as a restaurant and bed-and-breakfast. (Henrietta Post, NY)
Letters to the editor (April 18) Apr 18, 2008
The actual quotation is from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. in a 1904 decision. His exact words: Great cases like hard cases make bad law. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Connecting Hitler and Darwin Apr 18, 2008
Oh that mine head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears," runs the lamentation in Jeremiah 9.1, that I might weep day and night for the slain daughters of my people. And yet if anti-Semitism has been the white noise of European history, to assign it causal powers over the Holocaust is simply to ignore very specific ideas that emerged in the 19th century, and that at once seized the imagination of scientists throughout the world. What is often called social Darwinism was a malignant force... (Human Events Online)
Onward the Revolution! Apr 13, 2008
Russia "was our friend/When the world was our foe," wrote Oliver Wendell Holmes. When Nixon launched his airlift to save Israel in the Yom Kippur War, autocratic Portugal let us use the Azores. (Human Events Online)
Transcript of Nathan J. Hochman, Tax Division's Assistant Attorney General Announcing Creation of the National Tax Defier Initiative Apr 10, 2008
The saying above the IRS's building on Constitution Avenue, right over there, by Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes states it best: "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society." From the quality of the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink, the streets we drive on and the security we expect, taxes are the lifeblood of the American civilized society. Now, what do honest, law-abiding tax payers expect in return from the government. (PR Newswire)
11 Things: Truth for sale Mar 28, 2008
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. (sponsored by: quiet modesty). (San Francisco Chronicle)
Book Review: Change of Heart Mar 26, 2008
In her newsletter for devotees, which is actually called Pi-Cult, Jodi Picoult describes doing research for her new novel, "Change of Heart." Some of it took her to a prison in Arizona, where she found herself right next to the lethal-injection gurney while discussing the death penalty with the warden. She also visited a gas chamber. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
First in our minds Mar 23, 2008
It was this warped construct that led Oliver Wendell Holmes to write "Boston State-House is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man, if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crowbar.". We forget that the first Native American met by Pilgrims who landed in 1620 was Samoset, who greeted them in the English he had already picked up from fishermen along the New England coast. (Boston Globe)
Without bonuses, success in selling Mar 17, 2008
- Oliver Wendell Holmes. Here's Mitch Little describing the reaction of sales prospects when he tells them how his sales force works: "They look at me like I have a hole in my head.". (AZCentral -- Business)
Judging the capacity to govern Mar 15, 2008
As Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously quipped after meeting Franklin D. Roosevelt: "a second-class intellect but a first-class temperament.". Today in Opinion. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Re: Guest commentary Mar 7, 2008
One of your great jurists, Oliver Wendell Holmes suggested that Taxation is the cost of civilization. I believe he was correct. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
This Day in History Mar 6, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (1841-1935). Untitled Document. (Montana Standard, MT)
Click for Full Story Mar 6, 2008
In 1935, retired Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Junior died in Washington ... Thought for Today: "To have doubted one's own first principles, is the mark of a civilized man." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. , U-S Supreme Court justice (1841-1935). (KWTX.com, TX)
Hate speech should be discussed, not censored Mar 3, 2008
In fact, its legal history dates back to a famous dissent following the majority opinion in Abrams v. US (1919), when Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes asserted that the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideasthe best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market. Applying the line of reasoning put forth in Holmes argument, one could infer that because hate speech, by and large, is not regarded as a valuable... (Yale Herald, CT)
Hillary Supporters Jumping Ship Feb 27, 2008
While at Time the Carlson woman gushed that Hillarys friends described her as an amalgam of Betty Crocker, Mother Teresa, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. " In a Time magazine cover story, Margaret Carlson pulled out all the stops composing a hymn to the sainted wife of President Clinton, and producing a classic journalistic emetic. "As the icon of American womanhood she is a medium through which the remaining anxieties over feminism are being played out, Carlson rhapsodized. (Newsmax)
Keeping those hands clean Feb 25, 2008
American physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. also recommended the practice. Jelinek said the most common disease he has seen that could be reduced through hand-washing is MRSA, of which there are two types: hospital or nursing-home acquired variety, and the community acquired variety which is much more aggressive. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
What Is Love? Students at Auburn tell Feb 13, 2008
And Oliver Wendell Holmes stated that Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness. The Bible talks about love a lot, telling us to love one another and that love is patient and kind. (Russellville News Democrat Leader, KY)
A noncommissioned sales force? You're crazy Feb 11, 2008
"Put not your trust in money; put your money in trust." - Oliver Wendell Holmes. Here's Mitch Little describing the reaction of sales prospects when he tells them how his sales force works: "They look at me like I have a hole in my head.". (Boston Globe)
4 comments Feb 10, 2008
"Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live, I am coming.'" Were Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. alive today, he might ascribe that line not to death but to nuclear terrorism. Ever since Sept. 11, 2001, Americans have had to live with the knowledge that the next time the terrorists strike, it could be not with airplanes capable of killing thousands but atomic bombs capable of killing hundreds of thousands. (Human Events Online)
It's hardly Bolshevism to propose taxing non-doms Feb 9, 2008
It is an extraordinarily modest embodiment of the words of Oliver Wendell Holmes that adorn the entrance to the US internal revenue service building in Washington: Taxes are what we pay for civilised society. It is perfectly acceptable for the City and Lord Jones to lobby against the government's plan. (Guardian Unlimited)
Clarifying views on economic freedom Feb 6, 2008
" -- Oliver Wendell Holmes If we all understood that, then there wouldn't be an "individual who has fallen by the wayside" that we can "tisk, tisk" as we pass them by and comment later on how bad it was to have to look at something like that. ". Kramerica wrote on Feb 5, 2008 1:51 PM:" Cross, Taxes, yes. HIGH taxes to facilitate a nanny state........no. ". (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Nat Hentoff whomps ACLU, others for inhibiting 1st Amendment Jan 30, 2008
Part of the title comes from Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' warning of the most powerful need of the First Amendment, especially in times of national danger and epidemics of speech-suppressing political correctness ... Lewis brings into the conversation a 1927 opinion (Whitney v. California) by Louis Brandeis, joined by Oliver Wendell Holmes, that affected me with the thrill of Americanism when I was a youngster. (WorldNetDaily)
A note to liberals about economics Jan 28, 2008
Steady wrote on Jan 25, 2008 3:34 PM:" Like I said, philosophical difference. Cross, you give reference to a nice quote, pick a word out and turn it into your own meaning. Instead of focusing on the word "society" like you asked, why don't we focus on what the meaning of the entire quote was. The quote was given by Oliver Wendell Holmes and he stated the meaning of the quote was: The purpose of government should be centered on national defense (sorry Phil), law and order, roads, and mail... (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
Memories of school days Jan 25, 2008
One year, I recited the poem "The Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendell Holmes for the speaking contest. The event was attended by most of the students and teachers, and I can still remember my sweaty palms and pounding heart. (Bridgeport News, CT)
High Hopes for Hubble Jan 16, 2008
Posted by Thomas E Ewing January 11, 2008 At 12:22 AM PST I may not have the eloquence of Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., who penned a poem that saved the U.S.S. Constitution, but my sentiments are the same. The Hubble Space Telescope should be brought back to rest in honor at the Smithsonian. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Freedom for the thought that we hate Jan 12, 2008
It's easy to see why Lewis came to view judges as brave protectors of First Amendment rights: he covered the Supreme Court during the Warren era, when the modern First Amendment took shape, and he recalls Justice Felix Frankfurter's showing him an eloquent 1929 dissent by Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. that defended the free speech rights of Quakers and pacifists and that inspired the title of this book. "When I came to the final paragraph," Lewis says, "I felt the hair rise on the back of my... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Spiritually Speaking: a faith perspective on the tax debate Jan 11, 2008
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.. There s a citizen s initiative making the rounds in the Bay State right now to place a question on the statewide ballot in 2008. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Building leadership through setting standards, goals Jan 10, 2008
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes. The prior articles in this series have outlined the powerful practices of purpose (core personal and/or social needs being met) along with vision (a destination or direction) and the critical need to generate followership to fulfill both. (Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area)
Justices Debate Stare Decisis Jan 9, 2008
Stevens said if the precedents are no longer good law, the Court should opt for clarity "rather than preserving an anachronism whose doctrinal underpinnings were discarded years ago." He quoted Oliver Wendell Holmes who criticized holding on to old rules for no other reason than "blind imitation of the past.". For her part, Ginsburg said, "It damages the coherence of the law if we cling to outworn precedent at odds with later, more enlightened decisions." Noting that the Court in recent years... (Law.com)
Rivera-Gutierrez Jan 3, 2008
He is a 1991 graduate of Oliver Wendell Holmes High School and attended The University of Texas at San Antonio. He is employed as a Service Manager at Gunn Infiniti in San Antonio. (Fort Stockton Pioneer, TX)
Great words from great thinkers, inspired by wine Jan 2, 2008
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, poet. "The wine urges me on, bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man singing and laughing gently.". (AZCentral -- Home)
A resolution: Abolish the income tax Dec 30, 2007
"Civilization costs something," the governor says, echoing the 1904 dictum of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.: "Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society.". Maybe so. (Boston Globe)
Regarding Henry Dec 30, 2007
Novick's first volume, "Henry James: The Young Master," published in 1996, was notable for its controversial assertion that James was initiated into sex by the jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes in the spring of 1875, when he was 22, and that he subsequently led an active homosexual life. It is fair to say that most James scholars were not convinced by the evidence produced for this claim, the crucial item being a highly ambiguous passage in James's "Notebooks" (published in 1947) that, given its... (Boston Globe)
Legacy of selfishness from 'no new taxes' Dec 23, 2007
This nation desperately needs a lesson driven by the words of former Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Taxes are the price we pay for civilization.". The Greenway is a public park, and it should be maintained by public funds. (Boston Globe -- Editorial)
In search of the real Henry James Dec 22, 2007
Toibin also dramatized a scene in which the young James sleeps naked in the same bed with Oliver Wendell Holmes a scene, Lodge points out in his essay, probably derived from Sheldon M. Novick's 1996 revisionist biography, "Henry James: The Young Master," in which Novick suggested that James experienced his "initiation" into sex in 1865 and that his partner was very likely Holmes ... The discourse now devolved into what Novick rightly characterized as "dirty" talk, reaching its apex when he... (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
More of this story Dec 12, 2007
(The) Boston State House is the hub of the solar system, Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote in 1858, a quote which has since morphed into the reference to the city itself. The Legislature has earmarked 10. (Patriot Ledger, MA)
NBC Shows Paper's Bush as Pinocchio Caricature Dec 7, 2007
" For the December 4 review, in full: Bozell will be a guest today (Thursday) in the second hour (live at 1pm EST) of Bill O'Reilly's national radio show. For details, check: Bozell's book will make a great Christmas gift. Here's more about the book published by Crown Forum and where to order it online: Bozell's book: Uncovering a Fifteen Year Love Affair How could America's presidential front-runner be a woman who has held only one elective office and had staggering numbers of personal,... (MediaResearch.org)
Focus on Immigration Over Iraq Upsets Schieffer Dec 5, 2007
" Young people, said Jamieson, take their cues from family and friends in a foggy geography of pop culture replete with misogynistic music, video games and crude comedy, where what separates fact from satire, bluster from menace (and for that matter, adolescence from adulthood), is hard to divine. Comedy Central is a source of both entertainment and political news for its audience, which is heavily young and male. Among its most popular offerings is the outrageous animated show "South Park,"... (MediaResearch.org)
Justice Stevens and the tipping point Nov 23, 2007
Only Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, who retired at 90 in 1932, served to an older age. Although Stevens has given no hint of retiring and shows no sign of slowing down -- in the courtroom, he looks and sounds much as he did 20 years ago -- the question of his tenure looms over the court and the 2008 presidential campaign. (Los Angeles Times)
A 'shadowy' Society Nov 21, 2007
"The ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade in ideas," Oliver Wendell Holmes observed. "The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the market." Perhaps the reason so many liberals persist in bad-mouthing the Federalist Society is that they fear Holmes was right. (Boston Globe)
Reid to convene Senate in 'faux' sessions to prevent 'recess appointments' Nov 19, 2007
Historically, some recess appointments eventually have won the Senate's blessings, including President Theodore Roosevelt's decision in 1902 to name Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to the Supreme Court. But many presidents - including Bush and President Clinton - have used that power to appoint judges and other officials who faced stiff opposition, and sometimes stalled nominations, on Capitol Hill. (Boston Globe)
Red, pink or puce? We're all conservatives now Nov 19, 2007
In 1871 the American writer Oliver Wendell Holmes remarked that "revolutions are not made by men in spectacles". Prescient of him, considering that he spoke 86 years before Kevin Rudd was even born. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Other Voices - Child porn is not free speech Nov 16, 2007
As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes once observed, "The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing panic." And pandering child pornography is tantamount to shouting fire by inflaming those who prey on the young. Someone is bound to get hurt. (Missouri Valley Times News, IA)
Your views: Five angry men Nov 15, 2007
30-day news archives. "It was a pot shot at the pseudo-science we all know as psychology.Just remember, the decline in American society is directly proportional to the rise in the acceptance of psychology as a true science.Paul E. Cothran Palm Bay Did Billy kill someone while driving? That could happen to anyone. Some call them accidents.Posted by: RisinSun on Thu Nov 15, 2007 6:55 am Orwell actually stated: "All animals are created equal, but some are more equal than others. (Florida Today)
