Woodrow Wilson actually said...

The Government of the United States desires the Japanese Government to know that it regrets the necessity for this decision.

Statement on Further Participation by the United States in Armed Intervention in Russia

01/15/1920

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

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 ...

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 ...