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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is, first, the wrong of failing to keep a promise made, and, in the next place, there is the wrong of demanding…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
There is, first, the wrong of failing to keep a promise made, and, in the next place, there is the wrong of demanding the impossible, and therefore forcing or permitting weak or unscrupulous men to make a promise which they either know, or should know, can not be kept.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

In "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt identifies two distinct moral failings: breaking promises and demanding unrealistic commitments.

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