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“If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.”

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Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

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The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

This book compiles various papers and addresses that delve into the concept of liberty and its importance in society more

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Learned Hand was an influential American judge known for his eloquent and thoughtful opinions. He served as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1909 until his death in 1961. Hand's legal reasoning and his commitment to the rule of law have had a lasting impact on American jurisprudence. more

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“I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.”

Spirit Chance Accepting Spread Gossip Suspicion Distrust Inquiry Rumor Traitor Detection

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“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.”

Individual Social Interest Community Class Democracy Absence Welfare Identical Uniformity Bipartisan Social Class

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“Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.”

Law Justice Common Instance Combination Customs Adaptation Common Law

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Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“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.”

Believe America Law Political Opinion Security Judging Tradition Absolutes Pressure Conservative Loyalty Passive Interpreter Immunity Tenure Political Opinions Conservative Political

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“The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.”

Feels Law Justice Effort Blood Judging Members Finals Profession Useless Circulation Articulation Incidence

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“Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.”

Powerful Liberty Weak Accord Latitude

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“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.”

Important Inspiration Records Dignity Rounds Lawyer Routine Trusted Minors Confined Monotonous Administrators

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Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“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.”

Law Language Worst Masters Ears Command Aliens Monstrous Unfamiliar

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Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“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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“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.”

Years Our Lives Maturity Outcomes Discretion Retrospect Appraise

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses