Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever el..."

"We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises."

"I have come to ask you for the repeal of that provision of the Panama Canal Act of August 24, 1912, which exempts vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls."

"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."