Woodrow Wilson actually said...

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

"I tell you plainly that this measure which I urge upon you is vital to the winning of the war and to the energies alike of preparation and of battle."

"We shall not only be distrusted but shall deserve to be distrusted if we do not enfranchise them with the fullest possible enfranchisement, as it is now certain that the other great free nations will ..."

"I had assumed that the Senate would concur in the amendment because no disputable principle is involved but only a question of the method by which the suffrage is to be extended to women."