Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"You have expected me to see that your energies should be released also along the channels of trade in order that you might serve the world as the only Nation disengaged and ready to serve it."

"I have a certain scruple of conscience in being away from Washington for many days at a time, because it is one of the interesting circumstances of the moment that there is hardly a day which does not..."

"I would not have come away from Washington had I not believed that there was a stronger compulsion of conscience to acquaint you with the state of affairs than there was to remain during this week at ..."

"You have certainly given me a most royal welcome to Kansas City, and I esteem it a very great privilege to deliver the message which I have come to deliver to this great throng of intelligent people."