Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

Learned Hand's Popular Quotes

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…

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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…

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"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…

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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…

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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…

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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.

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

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

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

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