If a community decides that some conduct is prejudicial to itself, and so decides by numbers sufficient to impose its will upon dissenters, I know of no principle which can stay its hand.
Learned HandThe profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.
Learned HandLife is made up of a series of judgments on insufficient data, and if we waited to run down all our doubts, it would flow past us.
Learned HandThe mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
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