The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Ca… - Learned Hand

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The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs.

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Billings Learned Hand (27 January 1872 – 18 August 1961), usually called simply Learned Hand, was an American judge and judicial philosopher. He served on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York and later the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was famous as an avid supporter of free speech and for applying economic reasoning to American tort law. He is noted as one of the most influential American judges to have never served on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Birth Name: Billings Learned Hand

Alternative Names: Judge Learned Hand

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In the end it is worse to suppress dissent than to run the risk of heresy.

We may win when we lose, if we have done what we can; for by so doing we have made real at least some part of that finished product in whose fabrication we are most concerned: ourselves.

Like John Stuart Mill, he would often begin by stating the other side better than its advocate had stated it himself.

The public needs the equivalent of Chevrolets as well as Cadillacs. - Learned Hand

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