Carolina QuotesLiberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Speech at New York Press Club (9 September 1912), in The papers of Woodrow Wilson, 25:124
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