Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I call it frankly a chance to insure the peace of the world.

Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and crushed.

America has to do at this moment nothing less than prove to the world whether she has meant what she said in the past.

If you suspect your friend of being a fool, the best way you can prove it or disprove it is by advising him to hire a hall.