Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I thank you very warmly, gentlemen, for your greeting and beg to extend to you in the name of my own countrymen the most cordial greetings.

They did not come as strangers in their thoughts.

It is an ancient friendship, but it has been renewed and has taken on a new youth.

It is a fine testimony to you men that these people like you and love you and trust you, and the finest part of it all is that you deserve t...