When will leaders rise?

When will men stop their questionings and recognize a leader when he rises?

When will they gather to his standard and say, we no longer question?

We believe you. Lead on. For we are behind you.

America needs men of that sort.

Will you encourage them?

You are your own saviors, and when you have come to the determination to save yourselves,

you will know your leader, the moment you meet him, for you will find, he is of your sort and of your purpose.

Woodrow Wilson speaking to the Princeton Club of Chicago, May 1910.

It is a great day for New Jersey and a great day for the nation when a man like Woodrow Wilson

comes forward to help reclaim and vivify our political life.

The New York Evening Post, September 16, 1910.

The legislature adjourned yesterday morning at 3 o'clock, with its work done.

I got absolutely everything I strove for, and more besides.

Everyone, the papers included, are saying that none of it could have been done,

if it had not been for my influence and tact and hold upon the people.

Be that as it may, the thing was done, and the result was as complete a victory as has ever been won, I ventured to say, in the history of the country.

I wrote the platform. I had the measures formulated to my mind. I kept the pressure of opinion constantly on the legislature, and the program was carried out to its last

detail. The strain has been immense, but the reward is great. I am, of course, exceedingly

tired, but I am quietly and deeply happy that I should have been of just the kind of service

I wish to be to those who elected and trusted me.

I can look them in the face, like a servant who has kept faith and done all that was in him,

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