Learned Hand Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

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  Money, Patriotic, Government

• I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law 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; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.

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  Lying, Believe, Heart

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.

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  Love, Freedom, Hate

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

• Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it ... 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; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own without bias.

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  Freedom, Lying, Heart

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

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  Rely Upon, Liberty, Body

  Learned Hand, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) (1941). “Liberty”

• 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 understands the minds of other men and women.

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  Freedom, Men, Mind

  "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

• What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

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  Government, Different Faces, Political

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

• The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Spirit

• The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

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  Years, Two, Liberty

  Brainerd Currie, Learned Hand, United States. Supreme Court (1953). “The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion”

• If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

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  Law, Liberty, Littles

  "United States v. Di Re". Judicial opinion, 1947.

• Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

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  Black, Liberty, Atrocities

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

• Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

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  Powerful, Liberty, Weak

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

• It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

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  Rights, Liberty, Alternatives

  Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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