Wilson, the scholar. And I have known enough of other men in public life—Senators, Representatives, Governors, Mayors, and their subordinates—to know that while some politicians are unscrupulous self-seekers in America as in other countries, America has her share of public men as true, as pure, as self-denying, as are to be found anywhere in the world. My faith in my fellow-men has been strengthened by my lifelong study of our National life. The evils from which we have suffered have been caused, not by too great a trust, but by too great a distrust of the people; and I repeat again, as my well- considered conclusion from such life study, what I have often repeated in public speech : The remedy for the ills of democracy is more democracy.