Woodrow Wilson actually said...

Public action will no doubt cause many who have perhaps unwittingly adopted illegal methods to abandon them.

Our national life has no doubt been less radically disturbed and disarranged than the national life of other peoples.

We are dealing, gentlemen of the Congress, I need hardly say, with, very critical and very difficult matters.

They constitute a burden upon us which is the more unbearable because we know that it is wilfully imposed by those who have the power.