Woodrow Wilson actually said...

To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make permanent conquest.

We must hold the light steady until they find themselves.

If they do not, we must await with patience and sympathy the awakening and recovery that will assuredly come at last.

Let us be perfectly frank with ourselves and admit that these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered now or at once.