Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"I have come out to ask you what there was behind me in this task."

"You have expected me to see that your energies should be released also along the channels of trade in order that you might serve the world as the only Nation disengaged and ready to serve it."

"I believe that you will credit the statement that no man is in a better position to know that than I am."

"America has a character as distinct as the character of any individual amongst us."