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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" — Learned Hand
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"I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves: "Since we are men, we will play the part of Man"." — Learned Hand
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"Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. 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 emotion." — Learned Hand
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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." — Learned Hand
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American Judge    Injustice   

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"Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition." — Learned Hand
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American Judge    Words   

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"While I should be the last to say that the making of a profit was not in itself a pleasure, I hope I should also be one of those to agree that there were other pleasures than making a profit" — Learned Hand
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"Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers." — Learned Hand
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"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man" — Learned Hand
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Law   

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"With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its strongest point, and so avoided that appearance of weakness and uncertainty which comes of a clutter of arguments. Few lawyers are willing to do this; it is the mark of the most distinguished talent." — Learned Hand
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"They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, than that a man should lay aside all else, and seek truth; not to preach what he might find; and surely not to try to make his views prevail; but, like Lessing, to find his satisfaction in the search itself." — Learned Hand
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"My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking." — Learned Hand
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Life   

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"A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through." — Learned Hand
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Man   

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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 understand the minds of other men and women" — Learned Hand
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"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action." — Learned Hand
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"In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy." — Learned Hand
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American Judge    Dissent   

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"A self-made man may prefer a self-made name." — Learned Hand
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American Judge    Man   

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"safeguard of free government." — Learned Hand
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"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it..." — Learned Hand
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Rest    Women   

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"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
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American Judge    Life   

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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 understand the minds of other men and women." — Learned Hand
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"(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work" — Learned Hand
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