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Learned Hand quotes: The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs. The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.
Learned Hand quotes: Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives. Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
Learned Hand quotes: The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ...
Learned Hand quotes: Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask. Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
Learned Hand quotes: There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
Learned Hand quotes: Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it. Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of it.
Learned Hand quotes: We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
Learned Hand quotes: The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency. The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.
Learned Hand quotes: For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.
Learned Hand quotes: The art of publicity is a black art. The art of publicity is a black art.
Learned Hand quotes: There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
Learned Hand quotes: The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
Learned Hand quotes: Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am. Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
Learned Hand quotes: The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
Learned Hand quotes: The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Learned Hand quotes: Since we are men, we will play the part of Man. Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
Learned Hand quotes: There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won. There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have not really won.
Learned Hand quotes: Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us. Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned Hand quotes: The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion. The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
Learned Hand quotes: A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few. A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.
Learned Hand quotes: A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws. A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.
Learned Hand quotes: Life is not a thing of knowing onlynay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions. Life is not a thing of knowing only
nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.
Learned Hand quotes: It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage. It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
Learned Hand quotes: The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us. The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.
Learned Hand quotes: If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice. If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand quotes: No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture. No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
Learned Hand quotes: Thou shalt not ration justice. Thou shalt not ration justice.
Learned Hand quotes: Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know. Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
Learned Hand quotes: In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
Learned Hand quotes: Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
Learned Hand quotes: In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
Learned Hand quotes: Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak. Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
Learned Hand quotes: The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.
Learned Hand quotes: Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law. Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.
Learned Hand quotes: The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins. The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned on when he wins.
Learned Hand quotes: Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
Learned Hand quotes: The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
Learned Hand quotes: Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
Learned Hand quotes: We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
Learned Hand quotes: Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through. Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through.
Learned Hand quotes: Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves. Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
Learned Hand quotes: Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations. Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
Learned Hand quotes: The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer. The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
Learned Hand quotes: Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

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