Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
Learned HandIf 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 HandNo doubt one may quote history to support any cause, as the devil quotes the scripture.
Learned HandIf the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.
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