32 ordspråk av Billings Learned Hand

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Billings Learned Hand föddes den 27 januari 1872 och dog den 18 augustus 1961 - US federal judge
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en If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice
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en Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it
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en You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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en Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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en The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man
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en While I should be the last to say that the making of a profit was not in itself a pleasure, I hope I should also be one of those to agree that there were other pleasures than making a profit
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en (Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work
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en 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 understand the minds of other men and women
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en What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition
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en What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart
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en It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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en They taught me, not by precept, but by example, that nothing is more commendable, and more fair, than that a man should lay aside all else, and seek truth; not to preach what he might find; and surely not to try to make his views prevail; but, like Lessing, to find his satisfaction in the search itself.
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en In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
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en No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes scripture.
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en I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...
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