Learned Hand Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

  Learned Hand

  Believe, Law Courts, Justice

• That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where non-conformity with the accepted creed, political as well as religious, is a mark of disaffection; where denunciation, without specification or backing, takes the place of evidence; where orthodoxy chokes freedom of dissent; where faith in the eventual supremacy of reason has become so timid that we dare not enter our convictions in the open lists, to win or lose.

  Learned Hand

  Religious, Eye, Winning

  "A Plea for the Open Mind and Free Discussion" (speech), Albany, N.Y., 24 Oct. 1952

• It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

  Learned Hand

  People, Justice, Democracy

• If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

  Learned Hand

  Justice, Political, Democracy

  "Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice" (1951)

• Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

  Learned Hand

  Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Justice

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

• Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.

  Learned Hand

  Law, Justice, Common

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

• The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

  Learned Hand

  Blood, Law, Justice

• How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

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  Thinking, Long, Justice

  "Parke, Davis & Co. v. H. K. Mulford Co". Judicial opinion, 1911.

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