Carolina QuotesWho shall assign limits to the achievements of free minds and free hands under the protection of this glorious Union?
James K. Polk
Carolinian
Source
Inaugural Address, Washington, 4 March 1845; Avalon Project, Yale Law School
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- Inaugural Address
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- 1845
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