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Learned Hand

"The aim of law is the maximum gratification of the nervous system of man."

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"Modesty forbids what the law does not."

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"Litigant: a person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bone."

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"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy."

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"Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."

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"Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is."

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"It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws."

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"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught."

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"Objection!" Metz shouts.Grounds?" the judge asks.Well...he's my witness!"

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"Every citizen is free to perform any act which does not hamper the equal freedom of another. No law shall forbid the performance of any act, which does not damage the physical or economic welfare of any other person."

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"One with the law is a majority."

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"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection. Be careful that too broad and high an aim does not paralyze your effort and clog your springs of action."
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"We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves."
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"Right knows no boundaries, and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution."
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