My hope is ... that we may recover ... something of a renewal of that vision of the law with which men may be supposed to have started out with in the old days of the oracles, who communed with the intimations of divinity.
ATTRIBUTION:
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), U.S. president. Address to the American Bar Association (October 20, 1914).
Wilson was speaking at the start of World War I, amid what he called “the extraordinary circumstances of the world in which we live.”
