Carolina QuotesNo man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare against wrong and get peace from his acquiescence.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“A Book Which Reveals Men to Themselves”, Address on the Tercentenary of the Tranlation of the Bible (7 May 1911) in The Politics of Woodrow Wilson, p. 104
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- 1911
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- p. 104
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“No man can sit down and withhold his hands from the warfare …” Woodrow Wilson. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-B2D5D69217. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/b2d5d69217
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