Woodrow Wilson actually said...

There was a time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough to run the Government of the United States.

Address at the Suffrage Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

09/07/1916

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It is rather, selection from a Nation which has volunteered in mass.

It is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling.

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It is not an army that we must shape and train for war--it is a Nation.