Woodrow Wilson actually said...

It has been a matter of pride with us that so many men of Italian origin were in our own armies.

I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address which you have just read.

Many political changes have centered about Rome, from the time when from a little city she grew to be the mistress of an empire.

It is a distinction which I am sure you are conferring upon me as the representative of the great people for whom I speak.