Carolina QuotesThe ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“The Leaders of Men”, speech at the University of Tennessee (17 June 1890), in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 74
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- p. 74
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