The one fact which all of us need to keep steadfastly before our eyes is the need that performance should square with promise if good work is to be done, whether in the industrial or in the political world.
From "The Strenuous Life," this passage stresses the fundamental importance of matching actions with commitments in all aspects of life.
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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