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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
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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.
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Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
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For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person and it is still not too late for that.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
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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.
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