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 spiri…

- Learned Hand

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 f…

- Learned Hand

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…

- Learned Hand

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. Th…

- Learned Hand

"I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken." I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every sch…

- Learned Hand

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

- Learned Hand

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.

- Learned Hand

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.

- Learned Hand

In america, there are two tax systems: one for the informed and one for the uninformed. Both are legal

- Learned Hand