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Learned Hand Quotes and Quotations
We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. The art of publicity is a black art. The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labour of thought. We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. |