"I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon law 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, no court can save it; no 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."

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Source : "The Spirit of Liberty" (speech), New York, N.Y., 21 May 1944

Learned Hand

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Heart Quotes

“It is not difficult to avoid death. It is much more difficult to avoid wickedness, for it runs faster than death.”
“I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 3, 1895.
“These little grey cells. It is up to them.”
“We come to the nations pretending to escape persecution, we the most deadly persecutors in all the wretched annals of man.”
“The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue.”
“I would like to think that Ive left the world of cardiovascular surgery better than when I found it. That would be a suitable epitaph.”
“There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.”
“It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.”

Source : John Millington Synge (2008). “The Complete Works of J. M. Synge”, p.433, Wordsworth Editions

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