There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
Arthur William Allen, Carl Schurz, Joseph Hodges Choate, Noel Noel-Buxton Baron Noel-Buxton, Philip Snowden Snowden (Viscount) (1913). “President Wilson on the United States and Latin America: Address Before the Southern Commercial Congress at Mobile, Alabama, October 27, 1913”
