Woodrow Wilson actually said...

It now gives me pleasure to lay before the Congress, for its information, a statement of all the expenditures of the American commission to ...

It is now our liberty and our duty to keep our promise to the people of those islands by granting them the independence which they so honora...

It is hereby ordered, under authority found in the act of June twenty-first, nineteen hundred and six

The United States cannot refuse this role of champion without putting the stigma of rejection upon the great and devoted men who brought its...