Woodrow Wilson actually said...

We are about to set them free; we must not leave them without the tools of action when they are free.

We must act now, at whatever sacrifice to ourselves.

I hereby establish the War Industries Board as a separate administrative agency to act for me and under my direction.

The functions, duties and powers of the War Industries Board, as outlined in my letter of March 4, 1918, to Bernard M. Baruch, Esquire, its ...