The only fruitful promise of which the life of any individual or any nation can be possessed, is a promise determined by an ideal.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.
To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.
When the Promise of American life is conceived as a national ideal, whose fulfillment is a matter of artful and laborious work, the effect thereof is substantially to identify the national purpose with the social problem.
God's promises are all on condition of humble obedience.
That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
A promise made should be a promise kept.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
Keep every promise you make and only make promises you can keep.
When you promise something, you must fulfill it.