Woodrow Wilson actually said...

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 d...

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

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 t...

We are the sincere friends of the German people and earnestly desire to remain at peace with the Government which speaks for them.