Learned Hand Quotes
What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition
Learned Hand, 1872-1961, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, United States v. Kirschenblatt, 1926
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All the human and civil rights abuses of its citizens by governments are ALWAYS justified as necessary preservation of law and order.
It is one of the tactics of Putin’s Russia. as it was with the Stalinist Era, to commit dissidents to mental institutions under the twisted logic that no one who was sane could possibly ge against such a beneficent government,
Spinoza’s ideas were considered so radical and dangerous that he was the only man in history who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims.
Matus had written an expose entitled the Black Book of Chilean Justice. The government not only banned the book, but jailed the Publisher and Chief Editor of the publishing company.
Billings Learned Hand was an American judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. As of 2004 Hand had been quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge.
