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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.”

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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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“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.”

Littles Important Would Be Law Individual Left Community Greater Relation Property Productions Arise Distribution

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.”

Littles Heaven Prayer Wind Desert Wheels Indifferent Our Prayers

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“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.”

Way Art Seems Too Much Picks Officials Visible Yield Public Officials

Author:Learned Hand

“We recently had a referendum in New York about extending the forest preserve. The city voted for it by a large majority; yet as I walk the streets I do not see afforestation written with conviction on the harried faces of my fellow citizens.”

Faces Walks Cities Written Tree Streets New York Citizens Fellows Majority Conviction Forests Preserves Extending Referendums

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Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“Tyranny is tyranny, no matter what its form; the free man will resist it if his courage serves.”

Ifs Men Matter Form No Matter What Tyranny Free Man

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“The apathy of the modern voter is the confusion of the modern reformer.”

Modern Confusion Voting Voters Apathy Reformers

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions.”

World War Spiritual Enemy Violence Weakness Conviction War Of The Worlds World War I Shallowness

Author:Learned Hand

“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.”

Feelings Life Is Emotion Knowledge Knowing Mere Feelings And Emotions

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.”

Ifs May Made Real Done Winning Loses Products Concerned Finished Fabrication

Book:The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

Source: The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses

“A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.”

Men May Made Self Names Self Made Self Made Man

Author:Learned Hand