Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"There is something very oddly contradictory about the effect you men have on me."

"I realize that I have done a very imprudent thing; I have come to address this thoughtful company of men without any preparation whatever."

"I knew that all a university could do if it knew its business was to interpret the moral forces of the world."

"I believe most profoundly in the duty of every American to exalt the national consciousness by purifying his own motives and exhibiting his own devotion."