Carolina QuotesThe man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Section VIII: “Monopoly, or Opportunity?”, p. 117
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 117
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