Teddy Roosevelt: “It is sometimes very attractive and very pleasant to make any kind of a promise without thinking whether or not you can…”

“It is sometimes very attractive and very pleasant to make any kind of a promise without thinking whether or not you can fulfil it; but in the after event it is always unpleasant when the time for fulfilling comes; for in the long run the most disagreeable truth is a safer companion than the most pleasant falsehood.”