Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Thou shalt not ration justice. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, than that a man should lay aside all else, and seek truth not to preach what he might find and surely not to try to make his views prevail but, like Lessing, to find his satisfaction in the search itself. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it... - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
safeguard of free government. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I remember he loved the patent cases, ... He used to get the invention involved in the case, take it apart and put it together again. He enjoyed seeing how the apparatus worked. . . . He also enjoyed the admiralty cases. He loved to get models of ships and recreate the circumstances of a collision. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment Thou shalt not ration justice. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment Thou shalt not ration justice. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
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 of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned ourselves. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
I submit to you that we must press along. Borrowing from Epictetus, let us say to ourselves Since we are men, we will play the part of Man. - Learned Hand Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes
Vernon Jordan, Civil Rights Leader, Dies at 85