Adaptation Quote by Learned Hand

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“Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”

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I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, "I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ,…

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The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

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The successful competitor, having been urged to compete, must not be turned upon when he wins.

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Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies 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 I assuredly do not I should miss…

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