Learned Hand Quote

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the patrimony which we have received.


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


We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the...

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the...

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the...

We lose the forest for the trees, forgetting, even so far as we think at all, that we are trustees for those who come after us, squandering the...