The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which weighs their interests alongside its... New Outlook - Página 391952 - 17 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1989 - 1346 páginas
...Judge Hand said, in 1944, in the midst of the war we were then waging against the forces of darkness: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty" — I lost my place. I may never get back to it. The CHAIRMAN. Take your time. Mr. KURLAND [continuing].... | |
| Giles Gunn - 1992 - 292 páginas
...but the entailments that such free participation brings with it. As Judge Learned Hand once observed, "the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women."1' DeMott concedes that this "spirit" is more of an energy that has actively nourished certain... | |
| Kenneth W. Thompson - 1992 - 372 páginas
...liberty: What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and... | |
| Suzy Platt - 1992 - 550 páginas
...constitution, no law, no court can save it; no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it. ... The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too...remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson... | |
| William Quirk, R. Randall Bridwell - 1995 - 162 páginas
...[of a] faith in the sacredness of the individual." Courts do not, in fact, act on neutral principles. The spirit of liberty is the "spirit which is not too sure it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and... | |
| John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - 1996 - 278 páginas
...all say, "We did this ourselves." Lao-tzu Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. John Ray The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too...remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, nearly two thousand years ago, taught mankind that... | |
| Anders Breidlid - 1996 - 432 páginas
...our sorrow. What then is the spirit of liberty? I cannot define it; I can only tell you my own faith. The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too...remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson... | |
| 1996 - 160 páginas
...Allegiance by Judge Learned Hands' address at "I Am An American Day," entitled "The Spirit of Liberty": "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not...remembers that not even a sparrow falls to earth unheeded; the spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson... | |
| Lewis H. Lapham - 1995 - 390 páginas
...superstition that their money is theit own. PRESIDENCY (THE) Awesome office. Democracy in America? The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure it is right. — JUDGE LEARNED HAND Over the course of the last eighteen months, no American politician... | |
| Ronald Dworkin - 1999 - 438 páginas
...reprinted speech about liberty in a patriotic ceremony in Central Park. ("The spirit of liberty," he said, "is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.") In the postwar period, he was appalled by the sadism and folly of McCarthyism, as well as by the liberal... | |
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