We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.
Address at the Sorbonne in Paris, France: Citizenship in a Republic
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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