Carolina QuotesThe conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic energy.
Richard M. Weaver Carolinian
Source
p. 65
- work
- Ideas have Consequences (1948)
- year
- 1948
- locator
- p. 65
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