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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
Learned Hand

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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“Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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