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Learned Hand Quotes: Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
         

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help 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 the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.



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The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understands the minds of other men and women.



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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.



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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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