Learned Hand Quotes

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• Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.
• The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.
• 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…
• 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…
• We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part…
• A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
• The mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which…
• 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…
• There is no fury like that against one who, we fear, may succeed in making us disloyal to beliefs we hold with passion, but have…
• 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…
• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no…
• The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.
• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
• If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
• The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
• It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies…

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