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

On the recordSeptember 7, 1916
There was a time when nobody but a lawyer could know enough to run the Government of the United States.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Address at the Suffrage Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey

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