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Quote by Abraham Lincoln
We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to per

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot. – Abraham Lincoln

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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. – Abraham Lincoln

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In the end, its not the years in your life that count. Its the life in your years. – Abraham Lincoln

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It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion. – Abraham Lincoln

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Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. – Edgar Watson Howe

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Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them. – Thomas Fuller

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A promise is a debt. – Proverb

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Between today and tomorrow are graves, and between promising and fulfilling are chasms. – Author Unknown

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