We shall succeed only so far as we continue to undertake โthe intolerable labor of thoughtโ โ that most distasteful of all our activities.
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 HandOur common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
Learned HandWhat seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.
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