Carolina QuotesA little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Statement on the successful filibuster by anti-war Senators against a bill to arm merchant ships (4 March 1917)
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- 1917
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