Woodrow Wilson actually said...

"I do hereby admonish all citizens of the United States and every person to abstain from every violation of the provisions of said Act of Congress."

"I can do nothing less."

"I refuse to believe that it is the intention of the German authorities to do in fact what they have warned us they will feel at liberty to do."

"We shall not believe that they are hostile to us unless and until we are obliged to believe it."