Learned Hand Quotes
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Hand, Learned. "Is There a Common Will?" Michigan Law Review, vol. 28, no. 1, Michigan Law Review Association, Nov. 1929, p. 52.
A major problem of new and emerging democracies is that many people believe that majority rule per se is democracy. In Egypt for example, Morsi and his Muslim Brotherhood won the election. They then assumed that they had the right to do anything including exempting the government from judicial review or deciding the role of women in society or denying freedom of religion to non-Muslim citizens. Democracy is not a serial autocracy with each new autocrat being selected by a free and fair election.
Television had been used very effectively in the 1952 and 1956 Presidential elections, particularly by the Republicans, and by 1960 both parties were planning extensive use of TV in the coming election.
Billings 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. As of 2004 Hand had been quoted more often by legal scholars and by the Supreme Court of the United States than any other lower-court judge.
