“Democracy, liberalism, culture, and religion are the cornerstones of this ancient institution.”

-- Joseph Melville Broughton, Governor of North Carolina, 1941

 

Source: “The University and the Inter-American Institute,” speech delivered before a joint session of the General Assembly of North Carolina, Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, 30 January 1941. In Corbitt, David Leroy, ed. Public Addresses, Letters, and Papers of Joseph Melville Broughton. Raleigh: State of North Carolina, 1950, p. 23.