The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
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Yet with all the attraction that it has, our youth cannot long remain without feeling the narrowness of simply a classification of the world. Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.Learned Hand
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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Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
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You cannot raise the standard against oppression, or leap into the breach to relieve injustice, and still keep an open mind to every disconcerting fact, or an open ear to the cold voice of doubt.
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(Common law) stands as a monument slowly raised, like a coral reef, from the minute accretions of past individuals, of whom each built upon the relics which his predecessors left, and in his turn left a foundation upon which his successors might work
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