Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"By way of immediate relief, surplus stocks of both food and clothing in the hands of the Government will be sold."

"Opinion and concerted action on the part of purchasers can probably do the rest."

"They constitute a burden upon us which is the more unbearable because we know that it is wilfully imposed by those who have the power."

"We are dealing, gentlemen of the Congress, I need hardly say, with, very critical and very difficult matters."