“Still the question recurs ‘can we do better?’ The dogmas
of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise to
the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and
act anew.”

- -Abraham Lincoln in his Annual Message to Congress,
December 1, 1862
“Lincoln on Leadership” by Donald T. Phillips