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Quote from Judge Learned Hand,


"Heretics have been hated from the beginning of recorded time; they have been ostracized, exiled, tortured, maimed and butchered; but it has generally proved impossible to smother them; and when it has not, the society that has succeeded has always declined."


By:

Judge Learned Hand (more quotes by Judge Learned Hand or books by/about Judge Learned Hand)


(1872-1961), Judge, U. S. Court of Appeals

Source:

Speech, 1955

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