Woodrow Wilson actually said...

To assume control of the vast railway systems of the country is, I realize, a very great responsibility.

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Government Administration of Railways

01/03/1918

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I am making this journey as an American and as a champion of rights which America believes in;

At present we have to mind our own business.

It is made for the protection of the weak peoples of the world and not for the aggrandizement of the strong.

I would be ashamed of myself if I discussed this great matter as a Democrat and not as an American.