...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...

...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...

...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...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,...

...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...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, in...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...that the people are essential guardians of constitutional limitations. As Judge Learned Hand said, "Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when...there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it. . . ." l Amending the Constitution to reverse Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman would,...