"I am a man of my word."

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Source : Augustus, Robert Samuel Rogers, Kenneth Scott, Herbert W. Benario, Margaret M. Ward (1990). “Caesaris Augusti Res gestae ; et, Fragmenta”, p.74, Wayne State University Press

Augustus

“When a person goes to a country and finds their newspapers filled with nothing but good news, he can bet there are good men in jail.”
“Every man's life is, consciously or unconsciously, a quest for the infinite and the eternal reality.”
“Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.”
“You can't lead others to places you don't want to go yourself. If you don't feel a burning passion for something, how in the world can you inspire and encourage others to share it?”

Source : James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner (1999). “Encouraging the Heart: A Leader's Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others”, p.149, John Wiley & Sons
“Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.”
“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”
“Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.”
“The United States is like a big company, and we need a CEO to run it.”

Source : "Why David Siegel Told His Employees to Vote for Romney". Interview with Susan Berfield, www.bloomberg.com. October 11, 2012.

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