"The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution……" — Learned Hand
"The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination."
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78 Quotes by Learned Hand
Learned Hand has 78 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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- 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…
- I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These…
- Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to…
- The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty…
- What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by…
- In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal
- 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.
- 'I beseech ye . . . , think that ye may be mistaken.' I should like to have that written…
- Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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