Learned Hand Quotes:
Ocupation: Judge
Life: January 27, 1872 - August 18, 1961
Birthday: January 27
Death: August 18
I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law and upon courts. These are false hopes, believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no courts to save it.
source: "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944
topic: Lying, Believe, Heart, False Hope, Limiting Freedom, Limiting Government, Weighing, America Freedom, Us Constitution
