November 22, 2025

Liberty is so much latitude as the powerful choose to accord to the weak.

Learned Hand (1872–1961), American jurist, The Cynic’s Lexicon, Jonathon Green, ed. (London: 1986), p.93

How do you take your liberty? Do you wait until it is accorded to you, or do you “just do it”?

Another of the nasty little secrets too infrequently appreciated in a democracy. The extreme reverse of this is the “weak” person who claims his liberty is being trampled on, and does nothing about it. Teach them.