Woodrow Wilson actually said...

Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them.

They constitute a burden upon us which is the more unbearable because we know that it is wilfully imposed by those who have the power.

We are dealing, gentlemen of the Congress, I need hardly say, with, very critical and very difficult matters.

Where there is no peace of mind there can be no energy in endeavor.