Carolina QuotesWilliam Woods Holden
North Carolina · born or raised1818–1892
North Carolina politician (1818-1892)
- Born in Durham County
- Died in Raleigh
- Worked in Raleigh
- Held office: Governor of North Carolina
- Held office: member of the North Carolina House of Commons
politician, lawyer, peace activist, governor, jurist
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I love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.
In the allotments of Providence we have been placed in a pleasant and beautiful country—a country washed on either hand by the waters of the circling seas, and teeming with all the elements of prosperity and power. This glorious country—this chosen seat of science and of art—this happy and peculiar residence of civil and religious liberty, has been won for us by the constancy and courage of our ancestors; it is the birth-place of blood and battle and prolonged disaster; and it is ours to defend, ours to enjoy, and ours to transmit in untarnished splendor to posterity.
The innocent and the law-abiding will be in no danger; but it is indispensable to bring the guilty to punishment.
There is no appeal from the will of the nation, expressed by a majority.
There is no safety to society save in the reign of Law.
Graham; that they were both leading public men, and it was not my habit to give information of that kind; but would tell him of one case of a private citizen and what I had done.
There is no equality of a social character among the whites, and there is no equality of a social character among the colored people.
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Kept here, labelled, rather than mixed in above.