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Learned Hand Quote: “Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.”

51. “Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.”

52. “Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “Life is not a thing of knowing only – nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.”

53. “Life is not a thing of knowing only – nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotions.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “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.”

54. “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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Learned Hand Quote: “It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.”

55. “It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don’t want to make a dogma out of it.”

56. “Skepticism is my only gospel, but I don’t want to make a dogma out of it.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “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. 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.”

57. “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. 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.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.”

58. “The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”

59. “There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.”

60. “It is of course true that any kind of judicial legislation is objectionable on the score of the limited interests which a Court can represent, yet there are wrongs which in fact legislatures cannot be brought to take an interest in, at least not until the Courts have acted.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.”

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

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.”

62. “The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.”

63. “Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”

64. “The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.”

65. “Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.”

66. “The legal relations between the individual and the community which arise out of the production and distribution of property, comprise by far the greater, and more important, part of the law; subtract these and very little content would be left.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “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.”

67. “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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Learned Hand Quote: “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.”

68. “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.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.”

69. “Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.”

70. “The public official must pick his way nicely, must learn to placate though not to yield too much, to have the art of honeyed words but not to seem neutral, and above all to keep constantly audible, visible, likable, even kissable.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.”

71. “Every smallest step of modern industry depends upon a cooperation whose maintenance and regulation is the very stuff of law.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.”

72. “Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “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.”

73. “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.”

— Learned Hand

Learned Hand Quote: “The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.”

74. “The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.”

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Learned Hand Quote: “A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.”

75. “A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.”

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