Carolina QuotesOnce lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Conversation with Frank Irving Cobb before asking Congress to declare war (2 April 1917). Attributed in Cobb of "The World," a leader of liberalism, by Cobb and Heaton, 1924, p. 270
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- 1917
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- p. 270
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