19 Quotations by Learned Hand
- 1. A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
- 2. A wise man once said, Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enou ...
- 3. For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a succe ...
- 4. If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.
- 5. It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; wh ...
- 6. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court c ...
- 7. Life is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our ...
- 8. Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived ...
- 9. My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matter ...
- 10. Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic instit ...
- 11. That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as ...
- 12. The condition of our survival in any but the meagerest existence is our willingness to accommodate o ...
- 13. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
- 14. There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we mus ...
- 15. They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, tha ...
- 16. What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if use ...
- 17. With the courage which only comes of justified self-confidence, he dared to rest his case upon its s ...
- 18. Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness ...
- 19. You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and ...
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