Carolina QuotesThe government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Section II: “What is Progress?”, p. 35
- work
- The New Freedom (1913)
- year
- 1913
- locator
- p. 35
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