Theodore Roosevelt said...

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...

A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.

I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.