Woodrow Wilson actually said...

We are not asking for armies; we are asking for a trained citizenship.

Address at the St. Louis Coliseum in St. Louis, Missouri

02/02/1916

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes

It is not an army that we must shape and train for war--it is a Nation.

It is in no sense a conscription of the unwilling.

Our industrial need prescribes that it be not made a technical holiday.

The Power against which we are arrayed has sought to impose its will upon the world by force.