 The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its...  New Outlook - Page 391952 - 17 pagesFull view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - Law - 750 pages
...grandparents was a Jew. We need to listen to one of our greatest living men. Judge Learned Hand: "• • • the spirit of liberty Is the spirit which seeks to...alongside Its own without bias; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who. nearly 2,000 years ago. taught mankind that lesson It has never learned,... | |
 | Carl Britt Hyatt - Civics - 1956 - 248 pages
...constitution, no law, no court can save it. No constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too...remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded. The spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Election law - 1961 - 1124 pages
...attention to a quotation of Judge Learned Hand, one of the noblest of Americans, to the effect that the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. Any change in our electoral system, which would make our two major parties less sensitivve... | |
 | United States - 1994 - 764 pages
...Arnold at the top of the list. Five decades ago, Judge Learned Hand defined the spirit of liberty as the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women, the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its own bias, the spirit which lies hidden in the aspirations... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services - 1967 - 688 pages
...type of righteousness with which it occasionally has been defended. As Judge Learned Hand once wrote, "The spirit of Liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right" Many youth in this country are aware of the task that you are performing, and await the results of... | |
 | Cooking - 1968 - 812 pages
...graduates to assume an attitude of "tentativity," recalling that Judge Learned Hand once said that "the spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right." He said that the 'lack of tentativity leads almost inevitably to force." "When a group... | |
 | Stephen Miller - Political Science - 1983 - 176 pages
...Democracy: The Limits of Theory and Practice," Democracy 1 (1981}:57. PARTI TOWARD A SCIENCE OF POLITICS The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. — Learned Hand One is afraid to think of all that the genus "patriot'" embraces, —... | |
 | Richard M. Clurman - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1988 - 322 pages
...imperiousness. From a loftier perch, Judge Learned Hand pronounced a better rule for their domain: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right." Afterthoughts The public will not accept shoddy journalism for long. We have no guarantee... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Judges - 1989 - 1268 pages
...Hand said, in 1944, in the midst of the wx we were then waging against the forces of darkness: ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too...that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit Wrich seeks to inderstond the minds of other men end women; the spirit of liberty is the spirit ttiich... | |
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