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Learned Hand Quotes about Liberty

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The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit that is not quite sure it is right.

Learned Hand
Freedom, Liberty, Spirit

As soon as we cease to pry about at random, we shall come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma; and as soon as we come to rely upon accredited bodies of authoritative dogma, not only are the days of our liberty over, but we have lost the password that has hitherto opened to us the gates of success as well.

Learned Hand
Rely Upon, Liberty, Body
Learned Hand, Elizabethan Club (Yale University) (1941). “Liberty”

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 that we have deemed vital to our liberties, is a delusion.

Learned Hand
Law, Liberty, Littles
"United States v. Di Re". Judicial opinion, 1947.

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned ... .

Learned Hand
Years, Two, Liberty
Brainerd Currie, Learned Hand, United States. Supreme Court (1953). “The Supreme Court: an NBC radio discussion”

Would we hold liberty, we must have charity- charity to others, charity to ourselves, crawling up from the moist ovens of a steaming world, still carrying the passional equipment of our ferocious ancestors, emerging from black superstition amid carnage and atrocity to our perilous present.

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

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

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

It is still in the lap of the gods whether a society can succeed which is based on "civil liberties and human rights" conceived as I have tried to describe them; but of one thing at least we may be sure: the alternatives that have so far appeared have been immeasurably worse.

Learned Hand
Rights, Liberty, Alternatives
Learned Hand (1955). “A fanfare for Prometheus”

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