Leadership consists not in degrees of technique but in traits of character it requires moral rather than athletic or intellectual effort, and it imposes on both leader and follower alike the burdens of self-restraint. – Lewis H. Lapham
Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nations conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. – James MacGregor Burns
