Carolina QuotesIf there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it; what we have to determine now is whether we are big enough, whether we are men enough, whether we are free enough, to take possession again of the government which is our own.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Section XII: “The Liberation of a People's Vital Energies”, p. 286
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 286
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