“All mankind deem us the representatives of the
moderate and sensible discipline which makes free men good citizens, of
enlightened systems of law and a temperate justice, of the best experience in
the reasonable methods and principles of self-government, of public force made
consistent with individual liberty; and we shall not realize these ideals at
home, if we suffer them to be hopelessly discredited amongst the peoples who
have yet to see liberty and the peaceable days of order and comfortable
progress. We should lose heart ourselves, did we suffer the world to lose faith
in us as the champions of these things.”—Princeton Univ. professor (and future
New Jersey Governor and U.S. President) Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924), “
Democracy and Efficiency,” The Atlantic, March 1901
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