Woodrow Wilson actually said...

I am never afraid that the United States will fail to perform its international obligations.

If you could get 10 per cent insurance of your fortunes in respect of peace, wouldn't you rather take it than no insurance at all?

I call it frankly a chance to insure the peace of the world.

Europe was full of people under the iron and relentless hand of military power, and that hand has been removed and crushed.