Wilson

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    Long a child, longer a diffident youth.
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    The competent leader of men cares little for the niceties of other peoples’ characters: he cares much—everything—for the exterior uses to which they may be put.... These are men to be moved. How should he move them? He supplies the power; others simply the materials on which that power operates.
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    He rejected, if he did not despise, democratic principles; advocated a government as strong, almost, as a monarchy.... He believed in authority, and he had no faith in the aggregate wisdom of masses of men.
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)