Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"If I can not retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasional..."

"One of the leading faults of you gentlemen of the press is your inordinate desire to hear other men talk, to draw them out upon all occasions, whether they wish to be drawn out or not."

"I have a profound intellectual contempt for men who can not see the signs of the times."

"If I want to know how many people live in a small town all I have to do is to go there and they at once line up to be counted."