Woodrow Wilson actually said...

The cost of living at present is a world condition.

The world is not going to settle down, my fellow citizens, until it knows what part the United States is going to play in the peace.

I know that you have been called together in special session for special objects.

We ought to give our thought to this, gentlemen: America, though we do not like to admit it, has been very provincial in regard to the world...