Carolina QuotesNo country can afford to have its prosperity originated by a small controlling class. The treasury of America lies in those ambitions, those energies, that cannot be restricted to a special favored class. It depends upon the inventions of unknown men, upon the originations of unknown men, upon the ambitions of unknown men. Every country is renewed out of the ranks of the unknown, not out of the ranks of those already famous and powerful and in control.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Section I: “The Old Order Changeth”, p. 17
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 17
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