Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"I am honored, sir, to be taken into this ancient comradeship of the citizenship of Rome."

"You have done me a very great honor."

"Many political changes have centered about Rome, from the time when from a little city she grew to be the mistress of an empire."

"If the future had nothing for us but a new attempt to keep the world at a right poise by a balance of power, the United States would take no interest."