The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country.
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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.
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Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
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Life 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.
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Nor need we be surprised that men so often embrace almost any doctrines, if they are proclaimed with a voice of absolute assurance.
Learned Hand in address "A Fanfare for Prometheus", January 29, 1955
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It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
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I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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What to an outsider will be no more than the vigorous presentation of a conviction, to an employee may be the manifestation of a determination which it is not safe to thwart.
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It lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
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