Life in a great society, or for that matter in a small, is a web of tangled relations of all sorts, whose… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts,… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Life is not a thing of knowing only--nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate ourselves to the conflicting interests of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
When I say that a thing is true, I mean that I cannot help believing it... But...I do not venture to assume that my… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written over the portals of… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... . — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins. — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
It is often hard to secure unanimity about the borders of legislative power, but that is much easier than to decide how far a… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
