Carolina QuotesLike a lusty child, government with us has expanded in nature and grown great in stature, but has also become awkward in movement... English and American political history has been a history, not of administrative development, but of legislative oversight-not of progress in governmental organization, but of advance in law-making and political criticism... We go on criticising when we ought to be creating.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
p. 203; as cited in: Dimock (1937;28)
- work
- "The Study of Administration," 1887
- year
- 1887
- locator
- p. 203
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