“What then is the spirit of liberty?”-Judge Learned Hand
Leave a commentAugust 26, 2020 by directorfsm
“I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon 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 it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can even do much to help it …
And what is this liberty which must lie in the hearts of men and women?
It is not the ruthless, the unbridled will; it is not freedom to do as one likes. That is the denial of liberty, and leads straight to its overthrow.”
American Minute with Bill Federer
Judge Learned Hand “What then is the spirit of liberty?”
“A conservative among liberals, and a liberal among conservatives,”
he was not consistently conservative enough for Republican President Warren G. Harding and he was not consistently liberal enough for Democrat President Franklin Roosevelt.
As a result, he was passed over several times to be a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court…
