Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."

"Everywhere else the language of the treaty is given but one interpretation, and that interpretation precludes the exemption I am asking you to repeal."

"We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises just because we have power enough to give us leave to read ..."

"The large thing to do is the only thing we can afford to do, a voluntary withdrawal from a position everywhere questioned and misunderstood."