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
men self names
A self-made man may prefer a self-made name.
men here-i-am long
Here I am an old man in a long nightgown making muffled noises at people who may be no worse than I am.
prayer wind heaven
We all have our prayer-wheels which we set up on the steppes. The indifferent winds come and carry most of them away to gasp out their little lives in the desert, for few reach heaven.
faces use reputation
Reputation, like a face, is the symbol of its possessor and creator, and another can use it only as a mask.
maturity years outcomes
Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.
learning college america
Today in America vast concourses of youth are flocking to our colleges, eager for something, just what they do not know.
law ears aliens
There is something monstrous in commands couched in invented and unfamiliar language; an alien master is the worst of all. The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it.
powerful liberty weak
Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.
likes too-late said
For, when all is said, as my friend George Rublee likes to put it, the only success is to be a success as a person; and it is still not too late for that.
men law government
A government of laws without men is as visionary as a government of men without laws.
affair lows sinister
There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.
stuff mold enough
It is enough that we set out to mold the motley stuff of life into some form of our own choosing; when we do, the performance is itself the wage.
patriotic may patterns
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.
determination may safe
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.