Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
Learned HandHeretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed, and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined.
Learned HandWe all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.
Learned HandFor, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.
Learned HandThe mutual confidence on which all else depends can be maintained only by an open mind and a brave reliance upon free discussion.
Learned HandI often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty 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. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.
Learned Hand