Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"We do not desire any hostile conflict with the Imperial German Government."

"I shall take the liberty of coming again before the Congress, to ask that authority be given me to use any means that may be necessary for the protection of our seamen and our people in the prosecutio..."

"We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it."

"I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do."