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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
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There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally.
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Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered but it has generally proved impossible to smother them and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
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The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of others, to learn to live in a social world.
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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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Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture but modern history is not a very satisfactory side-arm in political polemics it grows less and less so.
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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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Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.
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The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
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