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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.
Learned Hand
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Learned Hand
Age: 89 †
Born: 1872
Born: January 27
Died: 1961
Died: August 18
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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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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.
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The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
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No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.
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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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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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