The people who trust to or exact promises that, if a certain political leader is followed or a certain public policy adopted, this great truth will cease to operate, are not merely leaning on a broken reed, but are working for their own undoing.
In an essay on the strenuous life, Roosevelt cautions against political promises that suggest fundamental principles of individual responsibility can be circumvented.
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