Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"You know that you have not, and the very fact that the force is not ready may make the task you have set for me all the more delicate and all the more difficult."

"I am sure we have never encouraged in America the spirit of militarism, and we shall never have militarism in the United States."

"If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they would have known how infinitely difficult it had been to mai..."

"The American plan is a great body of citizens who are ready to rally to the national defense and adequately serve the national defense when it is necessary to do so."