Learned Hand Quotes about Justice

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It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

It is the daily; it is the small; it is the cumulative injuries of little people that we are here to protect....If we are able to keep our democracy, there must be once commandment: THOU SHALT NOT RATION JUSTICE.

Learned Hand

People, Justice, Democracy

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: thou shalt not ration justice.

Learned Hand

Justice, Political, Democracy

"Thou Shalt Not Ration Justice" (1951)

Justice is the tolerable accommodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accommodation concretely.

Learned Hand

Believe, Law Courts, Justice

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

Learned Hand

Men, Brotherhood Of Man, Justice

Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

How long shall we blunder along without the aid of unpartisan and authoritative scientific assistance in the administration of justice, no one knows; but all fair persons not conventionalized by provincial legal habits of mind ought, I should think, unite to effect some change.

Learned Hand

Thinking, Long, Justice

"Parke, Davis & Co. v. H. K. Mulford Co". Judicial opinion, 1911.

The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts towards justice; it must feel the circulation of the communal blood or it will wither and drop off, a useless member.

Learned Hand

Blood, Law, Justice