Learned Hand
Learned Hand
Billings Learned Handwas a United States judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Hand has been quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth27 January 1872
CountryUnited States of America
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There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, although their words are by far the most decisive evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final.
ideas succeed labor
We shall succeed only so far as we continue that most distasteful of all activity, the intolerable labor of thought.
men self names
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
running risk ends
In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
men play
Since we are men, we will play the part of Man.