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Learned Hand Quotes

American - Judge | January 27, 1872 - August 18, 1961

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

Justice Man Brotherhood Right Knows

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

Words Alien Juxtaposition Pebbles

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.

Women Men Law Constitution Liberty

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Win Doing Lose Done Product Real

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Life Time Action More Answers Up

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Man Name May Self-Made Prefer

No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.

History Support Devil Doubt May Any

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.

Life Past Data Down Run Flow

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.

Liberty Spirit Right Sure Which Too

You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.

Mind Cold Voice Doubt You Injustice

In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

End Run Risk In The End Dissent

What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.

Determination Will More Employee May

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