Woodrow Wilson actually said...

We owe it to a due regard for our own rights as a nation, to our sense of duty as a representative of the rights of neutrals the world over,...

I have taken it, and taken it in the confidence that it will meet with your approval and support.

The Government of the United States earnestly protested.

It has therefore become painfully evident that the position which this Government took at the very outset is inevitable.