Special Message
02/14/1909
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If you will steal for me you will steal from me.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.