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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
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The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
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Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
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The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
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There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
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The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.
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Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.
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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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The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
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It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.
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Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose adjustment so that it may be endurable is an extraordinarily troublesome matter.
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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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Seldom, if ever, does wisdom come, shall we punish it if it comes late?
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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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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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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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Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don't want to make a dogma out of 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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