Message to Congress
06/22/1902
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.