Woodrow Wilson actually said...

We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it.

Address to a Joint Session of Congress on the Severance of Diplomatic Relations with Germany

02/02/1917

More Woodrow Wilson Quotes

It is time rather to speak our thoughts and purposes concerning the present and the immediate future.

I am the friend of peace and mean to preserve it for America so long as I am able.

I cannot imagine any man with American principles at his heart hesitating to defend these things.

We must defend our commerce and the lives of our people in the midst of the present trying circumstances, with discretion but with clear and...