Carolina QuotesSince I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom (1913), Doubleday, pp. 13-14
- year
- 1913
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