Consciously or unconsciously we all strive to make the kind of a world we like. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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On This Day In: | |
2017 | Explaining My Equally Meager Results |
2016 | Every Tool And Every Chance |
2015 | Something That You Love |
2014 | Not Really At All |
2013 | Listening And Deserving |
2012 | I’m Still Not Certain |
2011 | True, False And Useful |
Posts Tagged ‘Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.’
Mostly Unconsciously For Most People
Posted in Quotes, tagged Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Quotes on May 3, 2018| Leave a Comment »
Revere And Criticize
Posted in My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged My Journal, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., On American Law, Politics, Quotes on September 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
I trust no one will understand me to be speaking with disrespect of the law, because I criticize it so freely. I venerate the law, and especially our system of law as one of the vastest products of the human mind… But one may criticize even what one reveres. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | Global Climate Change May Test This Statement |
2014 | Adaptability Won |
2013 | Disappeared |
2012 | Fuller |
Life On The Range | |
More Classics | |
2011 | Stoned Again? |
2010 | Insubordination… And That’s Why I Love Her! |
Losing – Week One | |
At The Center
Posted in My Journal, Politics, Quotes, tagged My Journal, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Politics, Quotes, U.S. Supreme Court on May 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »
We are very quiet here, but it is the quiet of a storm center, as we all know. | |
— Mr. Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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On This Day In: | |
2015 | True Value In Life |
2014 | A Potential To Be Concerned |
2013 | Fine No More |
2012 | Have You Checked Your Height Lately? |
2011 | Are You Convinced? |
The Soldier’s Faith
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Philosophy, Quotes, The Soldier's Faith on July 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
An address on Memorial Day, | |
May 30, 1895, | |
at a Meeting Called by the Graduating Class of Harvard University. | |
The speech is generally known as “The Soldier’s Faith“ | |
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How Will You Be Judged?
Posted in Philosophy, Quotes, tagged Memorial Day Address, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Philosophy, Quotes on July 30, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
An address delivered for Memorial Day, | |
May 30, 1884, | |
at Keene, NH, | |
before John Sedgwick Post No. 4, | |
Grand Army of the Republic. | |
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