Carolina Quotes
To my mind there is greater promise in democracy than men of any preceding period ever dared dream of—aggressive democracy—growth by action.
Walter Hines Page Carolinian
Source
Letter to William Roscoe Thayer, New York, 5 December 1900; in Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, vol. I (1922), ch. III
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- letter
- work
- Letter to William Roscoe Thayer
- year
- 1900
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