Carolina QuotesIn politics we do well to abide by precedent and precept and even prejudice, for the great mysterious incorporation of the human race has acquired a prescriptive wisdom far greater than any man’s petty private rationality.
Russell Kirk Connected to the Carolinas
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- The Politics Of Prudence (1993)
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- 1993
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