Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring...

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

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the futur...