Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"We shall pay the bill, though we did not deliberately incur it."

"And we ought not to borrow."

"That the provisions of law requiring survey, inspection and measurement, by officers of the United States, of foreign-built ships admitted to United States registry under said Act, are hereby suspende..."

"Any vacancy occurring among such watch officers within two years from this date may be filled without regard to citizenship; but any vacancy which may occur thereafter shall be filled by a watch offic..."