Woodrow Wilson actually said...

Because, realizing the great confidence you place in me, I am led to question my own ability to justify that confidence.

Remarks to the Delegation of Working Women of France in Paris

01/24/1919

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Frightened, my fellow citizens? Why, it is the only possible or conceivable guaranty against the wars that have ravaged the world.

That really is my errand.

Let me take them one by one.

I say that we have an immense insurance against war, and that is exactly what this great covenant does.