Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
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 HandLiberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it.
Learned HandWe accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.
Learned Hand