On the record
We owe this as an obligation to ourselves, we owe it as an obligation to all mankind.
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gutenberg.orgWe owe this as an obligation to ourselves, we owe it as an obligation to all mankind.
He expresses the obligation of the nation to uphold its responsibilities to itself and humanity.
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No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.