Carolina QuotesConservatism is the policy of making no changes and consulting your grandmother when in doubt.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Attributed by Raymond B. Fosdick in Report of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, 1963, p. 49
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- 1963
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- p. 49
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