I directed or approved every action, and am responsible for all that was done in carrying out the will of the Congress; and the provisions of the law, enacted by Congress after exhaustive examination and discussion, were scrupulously complied with by the Executive.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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