This much I think I do know—that a society so riven that the spirit of moderation is gone, no court can save; that a society where the spirit flourishes, no court need save; that in a society which evades its responsibility by thrusting upon the courts the nurture of that spirit, that spirit in the end will perish.Learned Hand1942★ 4.3
SpeechLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.Learned Hand1944★ 3.5
SpeechRight knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.Learned Hand1945★ 3.5
SpeechOur dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers.Learned Hand1927★ 3.5
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