Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's 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.

Leadership, in short, is power governed by principle, directed toward raising people to their highest levels of personal motive and social morality.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.

To elevate the goals of humankind, to achieve high moral purpose, to realize major intended change, leaders must thrust themselves into the most intractable processes and structures of history and ultimately master them.

A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.