“Although Holmes's apothegm, "detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife," is sometimes quoted, Holmes scholars have generally ignored the case of Brown v. United States. Holmes's opinion in Brown v. United States strongly upholds the… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the tendency of the Americain iiuud seems to he very strongly against the enforcement of any rule which requires a person to flee… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Following the Civil War, Americans began to perceive it new version of the earlier land-population-wealth crisis as an alarming trend of land consolidation and enclosure threatened the small landholders of the West. Henry George of San Francisco, later to be famous as the author of Progress and Poverty, articulated the new perception. George's social philosophy was moored in it deep… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share
“Kearney did not go as far in geographic distance as he did in mode of livelihood: although he only went across San Francisco Bay… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“What might have developed into it great controversy in England over the duty to retreat failed to occur in the absence of conditions like… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“A man is not born to run away." Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes (1921).*” — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Although Holmes's apothegm, "detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife," is sometimes quoted, Holmes scholars have generally ignored the… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“The new surveillance is spearheaded by burgeoning, ever-more-sophisticated electronic means that include-among a staggering array of devices-potent lasers, parabolic microphones and other "bugs" with… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“A recent widely publicized case unites themes of no duty to retreat and, in individual terms, conquest and mastery. This was the case of… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“It is these conceptual categories of incorporatior gunji{~/iterc and resister gunfighters and not the mythical categories of' hero and villain that are the keys… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“With a significant reduction in crime and with other changes in the American and international order of the Will of the century front the… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
“Because the gunfight near the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, a year and a half after the Mussel Slough shootout, took place in a… — Richard Maxwell Brown Copy Share Image
