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He was ever precise in promise-keeping.
Sep 12, 2025
Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.
Promise is most given when the least is said.
Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.
Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan.
Today I am pledging to cut the deficit we inherited in half by the end of my first term in office.
Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it.
And that means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future.
I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America.
I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay.
Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly possible.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth.
Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.
Thou oughtest to be nice, even to Superstition, in keeping thy Promises; and therefore thou shouldst be equally cautious in making them.
Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
April is a promise that May is bound to keep.
An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise.
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
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