Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I ask you even as a business proposition whether it is more useful to trade with a cynic or with an optimist.

Address at a Luncheon at the Hotel Portland in Portland, Oregon

09/14/1919

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes

Without the covenant of the League of Nations there may be as many secret treaties as ever, to destroy the confidence of governments in each...

The old spies are free to resume their former abominable activities.

We cannot rewrite this treaty.

The world has been made safe for democracy, but democracy has not been finally vindicated.