Learned Hand Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

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  Change, Past, Choices

  Harry Kalven, Learned Hand (1967). “The Supreme Court as legislator: the contribution of an independent judiciary to civilization : an address”

• The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and character can command, if it is to do the work assigned to it - if it is to stand against the passionate resentments arising out of the interests he must frustrate - for while a judge must discover some composition with the dominant trends of his times, he must preserve his authority by cloaking himself in the majesty of an overshadowing past.

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  Character, Past, Judging

  The New York Times, October 06, 1963.

• 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

  Running, Past, Data

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

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