Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.
Learned HandThose 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.
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 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.
Learned Hand