Carolina QuotesThe average American is just like the child in the family. You give him some responsibility and he is going to amount to something. He is going to do something. If, on the other hand, you make him completely dependent and pamper him and cater to him too much, you are going to make him soft, spoiled and eventually a very weak individual.
Richard Nixon Connected to the Carolinas
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Post-re-election interview with Garnett D. Horner, The Washington Star-News (November 9, 1972), p. 1.
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