But in 1860, the people of the United States elected Lincoln president. Then Lincoln found himself responsible for the greatest constitutional crisis America has ever seen. Intelligence alone is not enough. We all know far too many people who are intelligent and who have failed. Leaders must have vision and then try to guide others to make it happen.
Vision is more than just sitting and thinking and planning.
Vision is being able to think the great thoughts and ask the great t were so clearly phrased by the man who, in my view, at the time of his death was the most visionary politician America had produced since Abraham Lincoln. You must, we must, have the boldness to say that our vision is right and real. Then we must have the integrity to wrap that vision into our will and make it work. There were great risks in 1960 when a dedicated young candidate for president of the United States said that before the decade was over we would put a man on the moon. That was not only boldness, that was brashness in view of the fact that not only did we not have the capability of going to the moon, we hardly had a missile system at all.