Learned Hand Quotes & Sayings
21 most famous Learned Hand quotes and sayings (judge). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.”
“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 past us.”
“If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.”
“Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.”
“The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.”
“In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”
“No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.”
“You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.”
“Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.”
“Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.”
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