Woodrow Wilson to Cleveland H. Dodge

Your letter is just what my heart desired and I am delighted that you now have the opportunity of pointing out to your friends in New York the truth of what you have all along been telling them, that it was necessary for me by very slow stages indeed and with the most genuine purpose to avoid war to lead the country on to a single way of thinking. I thank God for the evidences that the task has been accomplished. I think I never felt the responsibilities of office more profoundly than I feel them now, and yet there is a certain relief in having the task made concrete and definite.
With all my heart