"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."
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Broken Promises
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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."
"Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."
"Better break your word than do worse in keeping it."
"Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future."
"The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed."
"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter."
"If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
"Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken."
"Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them."
"Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned."
"I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay."
"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."
"Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office."
"I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America."