Learned Hand, Oliver Wendell Holmes lecture delivered at Harvard (1958); quoted in The Rhetoric of Our Times (1969) by J. Jeffery Auer, p. 124.
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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.
— Learned Hand on Dissent
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About Learned Hand
Billings Learned Hand (27 January 1872 – 18 August 1961), usually called simply Learned Hand,
About Learned Hand
Billings Learned Hand (27 January 1872 – 18 August 1961), usually called simply Learned Hand,
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