Learned Hand

"Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself."

"Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owe…"

"This is the most miserable of cases, but we must dispose of it as though it had been presented by actual lawyers."

"Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."

"The judge's authority depends upon the assumption that he speaks with the mouth of others. That is to say, the momentum of his utterances must be greater than any which his personal reputation and cha…"

"If the prosecution of crime is to be conducted with so little regard for that protection which centuries of English law have given to the individual, we are indeed at the dawn of a new era; and much t…"

"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."

"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."