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• 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.

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  Art, Yield, Too Much

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• It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

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  Rights, Liberty, Alternatives

  Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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• Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.

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  Use, Faces, Reputation

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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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  Maturity, Years, Outcomes

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.

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  Men, Here I Am, Long

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• 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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  Life, Success, Mold

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• Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.

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  Men, Play

  Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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• A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

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  Men, Government, Law

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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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  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• 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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  Determination, May, Safe

  Learned Hand (1968). “The art and craft of judging: the decisions of Judge Learned Hand”

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• For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not.

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  Would Be, Guardian, Platonic

  "The Bill of Rights". Book by Learned Hand, p. 73, 1958.

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• No doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.

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  Support, Doubt, Devil

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

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  Needs, Cadillacs, Chevrolet

  The USA Today, February 02, 1984.

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• 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.

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  New York, Cities, Tree

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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

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  Law, Justice, Common

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• We prate of freedom; we are in deadly fear of life, as much of our own American scene betrays.

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  Life, Inspire, Scene

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• 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. I am satisfied that a scholar who tries to combine these parts sells his birthright for a mess of pottage; that, when the final count is made, it will be found that the impairment of his powers far outweighs any possible contribution to the causes he has espoused.

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  Voice, Doubt, Mind

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• 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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  Learning, College, America

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• The art of publicity is a black art.

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  Art, Black, Publicity

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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