Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"I submit my difficulties and my hopes to you."

"Unity of command is as necessary now in civil action as it is upon the field of battle."

"I need not tell you, my fellow countrymen, that I am asking your support not for my own sake or for the sake of a political party, but for the sake of the nation itself, in order that its inward unity..."

"I have no thought of suggesting that any political party is paramount in matters of patriotism."