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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.

— Learned Hand

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A wise man once said, "Convention is like the shell to the chick, a protection till he is strong enough to break it through."

Life is not a thing of knowing only — nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.

Class-Day Oration (1893)

What do we mean when we say that first of all we seek liberty?

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

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…

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