Carolina QuotesI love my State, because her people have been good and kind to me, and because her sky is above my home, as it will be above my grave.
William Woods Holden Carolinian
Source
Inaugural speech as Governor of North Carolina, delivered to a "vast audience" in Capitol Square, Raleigh (July 4, 1868). Memoirs of W. W. Holden (Durham, NC: The Seeman Printery, 1911) ch. 4, pp. 101–2, 105
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- 1868
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- pp. 101–2
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“I love my State, because her people have been good and kind …” William Woods Holden. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-96A37CBF91. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/96a37cbf91
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