KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Learned Hand Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Learned Hand

Showing 11-20 of 21 Quotes by Learned Hand

If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Thou shalt not ration justice.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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.

~Learned Hand

Topics: None

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Judge

Born: January 27th, 1872

Died: August 14th, 1961

Links

Find Learned Hand on Amazon

Related Authors

Louis D. Brandeis
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thurgood Marshall
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonin Scalia
Sonia Sotomayor
Clarence Thomas

Popular Authors

Edmund Burke Dale Carnegie Amelia Earhart Clint Eastwood Dolores Huerta John Keats Joyce Meyer Elie Wiesel

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1882 - Franklin D. Roosevelt

1775 - Walter Savage Landor

1781 - Adelbert Von Chamisso

1846 - F. H. Bradley

1866 - Gelett Burgess

1909 - Saul Alinsky

1912 - Francis Schaeffer

1912 - Barbara Tuchman

1912 - Barbara W. Tuchman

1919 - Fred Korematsu

Birthdays on January 30th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Beauty Equality Father's Day Good New Year's Travel Trust War