Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn blood from us."

"Shall America redeem her pledges to the world?"

"Hitherto we have generously kept our doors open to all who were not unfitted by reason of disease or incapacity for self-support or such personal records and antecedents as were likely to make them a ..."

"The trouble has been that when they came in the past—they came with all their bristles out; they came on the defensive; they came to see, not what they could accomplish, but what they could prevent."