Fundamentally, our attitude in our foreign affairs and in reference to foreign nations, must, in the long run, if we are to be successful as a people, be based upon certain common sense rules of conduct; the identical rules upon which every self-respecting citizen must base his private actions.
Address to the Texas State Legislature in Austin
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A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.
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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