He is a friend of all just men and a lover of the right; and he knows more than how to talk about the right—he knows how to set it forward in the face of its enemies.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. Letter to Senator C.A. Culberson (May 5, 1916).
Wilson was defending his appointment of Louis D. Brandeis to the Supreme Court, against the opposition of conservatives in the Senate.
