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Learned Hand has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to…
• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.
• That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where…
• I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false…
• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that…
• The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
• We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.
• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it;…

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