Woodrow Wilson actually said...

Right must be based upon the common strength, not upon the individual strength, of the nations upon whose concert peace will depend.

It is inconceivable that the people of the United States should play no part in that great enterprise.

They cannot in honor withhold the service to which they are now about to be challenged.

That service is nothing less than this, to add their authority and their power to the authority and force of other nations to guarantee peac...