7+ Judge Learned Hand Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best Judge Learned Hand quotes and sayings.

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. — Judge Learned Hand

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. — Judge Learned Hand

Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and their tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers. — Judge Learned Hand

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the irksomeness of action. — Judge Learned Hand

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. — Judge Learned Hand

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 emotions. — Judge Learned Hand

Anyone may so arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible. He is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. — Judge Learned Hand