Benevolence never developed a man or a nation. We do not want a benevolent government. We want a free and a just government. Every one of the great schemes of social uplift which are now so much debated by noble people amongst us is based, when rightly conceived, upon justice, not upon benevolence.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) US President (1913-20), educator, political scientist

The New Freedom, ch. 9 (1915)