Carolina QuotesThere is a very great thrill to be had from the memories of the American Revolution, but the American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation, and the duty laid upon us by that beginning is the duty of bringing the things then begun to a noble triumph of completion.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“On the Spirit of America”, Address to Daughters of the American Revoltion (11 October 1915)
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- 1915
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