NAEP Civics Grade 12

"I often wondered whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes; believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lives in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." -- Judge Learned Hand, 1941

It can be concluded from the quotation that Judge Hand believed it was most important that citizens