Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"We want to defend the life of this Nation against any sort of interference."

"The old cry for the defense of your hearth and home does not seem to me a very handsome appeal."

"The facts of the world are such that it is my duty to counsel my fellow citizens that preparation for national defense can not any longer be postponed."

"I am sorry that upon the eve of a campaign we should be obliged to discuss these things, for fear they might run over into the campaign and seem to constitute a part of it."