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“I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that ye may be mistaken.” I should like to have that written over the portals of every church, every school, and every courthouse, and, may I say, of every legislative body in the United States. I should like to have every court begin, “I beseech ye in the bowels of Christ, think that we may be mistaken.”

Church

School

Thinking

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

Government

Law

Men

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

Men

Names

Self

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

Checks

Men

Savages

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Atheism

Purpose

Upset

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Advice

Patriotic

Pay

Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one’s taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

Government

Money

Patriotic

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

Body

Liberty

Rely Upon

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.

Class

Community

Democracy

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

Believe

Loyalty

Political Opinions

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Aliens

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America

Anger

Answers

Apathy

Art

Atheism

Atrocities

Believe

Black

Blood

Body

Brave

Brotherhood Of Man

Cadillacs

Change

Character

Checks

Chevrolet

Choices

Church

Cities

Class

College

Color

Common

Community

Competition

Confusion

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Data

Dean

Democracy

Determination

Devil

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Discussion

Documents

Doe

Dogma

Done

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Quotes by Learned Hand

Learned Hand

A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.

A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.

A society in which men recognize no check upon their freedom soon becomes a society where freedom is the possession of only a savage few.

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase ones taxes.

Bipartisan democracy presupposes the individual, whose welfare is identical with that of the community in which he lives, the absence of coherent social classes, a basic uniformity of interest throughout.

Conservative political opinion in America cleaves to the tradition of the judge as passive interpreter, believing that his absolute loyalty to authoritative law is the price of his immunity from political pressure and of the security of his tenure.

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