Napoleon Bonaparte
Military Leader, Emperor
"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
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Broken Promises
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Edmund Burke
Philosopher, Politician
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."
John F. Kennedy
Politician
"I would rather be accused of breaking precedents than breaking promises."
Kelly Miller
Sociologist, Author
"Germany expected that at the most a day or so would see Belgian resistance broken and the dash on Paris begun. It was not safe to start such a forward rush with Belgium unconquered."
Howard Bryant
Journalist, Author
"Don't make promises you can't keep."
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"Christopher Reeve understood that everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body."
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"Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."
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"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
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"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future."
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"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed."
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"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
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"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
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"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
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"Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them."
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"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."
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"I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay."
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"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."
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"Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office."
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"I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America."
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