I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.
Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California
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Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.
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.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.
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