Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"If these gentlemen could have sat with me reading the dispatches and handling the questions which arise every hour of the twenty-four, they would have known how infinitely difficult it had been to mai..."

"Our peers are the men who have spent their great energies outside the narrow circle of their own self-interest."

"I am sure we have never encouraged in America the spirit of militarism, and we shall never have militarism in the United States."

"The old cry for the defense of your hearth and home does not seem to me a very handsome appeal."