 | Carl Britt Hyatt - 1956 - 248 pages
...active faith." THE SPIRIT OF LIBERTY LEARNED HAND, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, 2d Circuit Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When...constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. The spirit of liberty... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce - 1961 - 726 pages
...laws, and upon courts. * * * Liberty," he tells us, "lies in the hearts of men and women ; when it diea there, no constitution, no law, no court can save...constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it." If Judge Hand be right that in the last analysis it is not through law that civil liberty finds its... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 524 pages
...our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes ; believe me, these are false hopes. "Liberty lies in the hearts...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. * * * » Justice too,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1964 - 860 pages
...final questions and I shall try to be brief. Did you have in mind the words of Judge Learned Hand, that "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there; no constitution, no law, no court shall save it, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it" ? Father KENEALY. I didn't... | |
 | 1991 - 914 pages
...With characteristic eloquence and sagacity, the celebrated American jurist Learned Hand once said: "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When...there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." His words are a stirring reminder that our Constitution and Bill of Rights can be effective guarantees... | |
 | Loukēs G. Loukaidēs - 1995 - 256 pages
...hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, they are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there is no constitution, no law, no court that can save it or even do much to help it. While it lies there... | |
 | Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 pages
...any one, nor atone for the wrong this day done. 113 LEARNED HAND FROM "The Spirit of Liberty" (1944) Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when...constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. While it lies there it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it. And what is this liberty... | |
 | Ronald Dworkin - 1999 - 438 pages
...community's deepest and most important decisions about justice. In his Central Park speech he warned that "liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when...constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help."7 (Thayer had written, a half-century earlier, that "under no system can the power of courts... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - 1996 - 2040 pages
...hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws, and upon i . u.ts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts...there, no constitution, no law, no court can save ii; no constitution, no court, no law can even do much to help it. While it lives there it needs no... | |
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I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws 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,... 
