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Remarks in Dekalb, Illinois

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

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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.

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