The great voice of America does not come from the seats of learning, but in a murmur from the hills and the woods and the farms and the factories and… - Woodrow Wilson

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The great voice of America does not come from the seats of learning, but in a murmur from the hills and the woods and the farms and the factories and the mills, rolling on and gaining volume until it comes to us the voice from the homes of the common men. Do these murmurs come into the corridors of the university? I have not heard them.

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About Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (28 December 1856 – 3 February 1924) was the 28th president of the United States of America (1913–1921) and the 45th governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, after Andrew Jackson, and was the first President from the South to be elected since the American Civil War

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Alternative Names: Thomas Woodrow Wilson • T. Woodrow Wilson • Thomas W. Wilson • President Wilson • T. W. Wilson • T. Wilson
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