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 ...