When Abraham Lincoln became president of the United States he was tasked with leading a fractured nation Lincoln is viewed as a wise leader and a man of high moral character but another element to his makeup perhaps was the foundation for everything else He understood that he was inadequate for the task at hand His response to that inadequacy Lincoln said ldquo I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day rdquo When we [... more]