Woodrow Wilson actually said...

They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their death any of our peopl...

We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre.

We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.

Their plan was to throw a broad belt of German military power and political control across the very centre of Europe and beyond the Mediterr...