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Learned Hand Quotations

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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.
Liberty 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 - jurist
There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
Judge Learned Hand - Address "A Fanfare for Prometheus"

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