I Think, As A President, You Have

Ironically, The More Intensive And Far-reaching A Historian's Research, The Greater The Difficulty Of Citation. As The Mountain Of Material Grows, So Does The Possibility Of Error.

I Now Rely On A Scanner, Which Reproduces The Passages I Want To Cite, And Then I Keep My Own Comments On Those Books In A Separate File So That I Will Never Confuse The Two Again.

What The American Dream Means To Me Is The Fact That - What Founded This Country - When I Think About Those Posters That Were Put Up In Europe, Which Said, "come To America And You'll Have Golden Sidewalks. The Land Will Be Yours." There Was Something So Inspirational About The Fact That These Immigrants From All Over The World Felt That Here Was A Place Of Freedom, A Place Of Opportunity.

Washington Was A Typical American. Napoleon Was A Typical Frenchman, But Lincoln Was A Humanitarian As Broad As The World. He Was Bigger Than His Country - Bigger Than All The Presidents Together. We Are Still Too Near To His Greatness,' (leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) Concluded, 'but After A Few Centuries More Our Posterity Will Find Him Considerably Bigger Than We Do. His Genius Is Still Too Strong And Powerful For The Common Understanding, Just As The Sun Is Too Hot When Its Light Beams Directly On Us.' (748)

That Is What Leadership Is All About: Staking Your Ground Ahead Of Where Opinion Is And Convincing People, Not Simply Following The Popular Opinion Of The Moment.