Carolina QuotesI would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Address on Latin American Policy before the Southern Commercial Congress Mobile, Alabama (27 October 1913)
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- 1913
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