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Above all. Learned Hand was a passionate admirer and defender of liberty. In 1950, his opinion upholding the Smith Act conviction of eleven top U.S. Communists was hailed as a legal milestone. Perhaps his true epitaph can be found in his own words, delivered to 150,000 newly naturalized Americans in Central Park in 1944: "The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women; the spirit of liberty remembers that not even a sparrow falls...
...tombstone," Mrs. Levy once jokingly told her husband. Child Psychiatrist David M. Levy: " 'Here lies my dear wife; she never minded her own business.' " Minding Mrs. Levy's business became a self-imposed posthumous duty of her fellow art lovers. They have written an eloquent epitaph...
...captain than the whole Navy, and your promotion of him to navy captain he would have spurned. Likewise would he have spurned the use of his great and good name for such a cause as Leader Welch's. On his headstone near Hsuchow, the Chinese wrote his epitaph: "Sha sheng ch'eng jen," which can be translated "He died for humanity," or "He died for righteousness." Leader Welch is doing dishonor to the name of my old friend, who fought for righteousness but not righteousness without humanity...
...during training flights). No one life could claim a value above another, but the deaths of brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, fathers and sons dealt one of the worst blows to whole families of any crash ever. In all, there were multiple deaths in ten skating families. Their epitaph was told in the tears of thousands of other skaters around the globe, and by three pairs of melted skates that dangled all day from a crippled aileron...
...limber, goateed adventurer who in a few dizzy years had skyrocketed from postal clerk to world figure, Tshombe had only a terse epitaph: "The fuss over this evil man will soon die down. The people have no memories here. C'est fini...