Learned Hand Quote

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses (ed. 1959)

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.

The use of history is to tell us what we are, for at our birth we are nearly empty vessels and we become what our tradition pours into us.