“The University of North Carolina is the lengthened shadow, not of one man, but of a whole people, the ‘freest of the free,’ united in a grand struggle for civil and religious liberty.”

-- John Sprunt Hill, Banker and Philanthropist, 1903

 

Source: John Sprunt Hill, “Address Before the Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina, June 2, 1903,” p. 9. North Carolina Collection.