If this high standard of efficiency and integrity can be maintained in the future at the same level which it has now reached, the construction of the Panama Canal will be one of the feats to which the people of this Republic will look back with the highest pride.
He expresses confidence that maintaining high standards will lead to pride in the Panama Canal's construction.
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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.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
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