I discovered (because of a link error I was tracking down) that one of the entries in my WIST quotations site is actually referenced in North Carolina's English Language Arts Common Core materials as a text exemplar for 9-10th grade students. It's a portion of a speech by Learned Hand back in 1941.
That's kind of cool. Hopefully when N Carolina rejiggers its ed standards to get rid of the Great Satan of Common Core (sigh), it will still be seen as something worthwhile for Tarheel teens.
(WIST Admin entry with a bit more detail: http://wist.info/admin/26628)
Speech, “I Am an American Day,” New York (21 May 1941)
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 mind of other men and
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