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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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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors. – Abraham Lincoln

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But as the arms-control scholar Thomas Schelling once noted, two things are very expensive in international life: promises when they succeed and threats when they fail. – Fareed Zakaria

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Some persons make promises for the pleasure of breaking them. – William Hazlitt

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Oaths are the fossils of piety. – George Santayana

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Oft expectation fails, and most oft where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest; and despair most sits. – William Shakespeare

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