Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democracy?"

"It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of criticism even, stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future..."

"Our solemn duty is to see that each one of us is in his own consciousness and in his own conduct a replica of this great reunited people."

"To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do wi..."