"Promises must be kept and contracts strictly observed to the extent that the commitments made in them are morally jus…"

"All men have a feeling, that they would rather you told them a civil lie than give them a point blank refusal…. If yo…"

"A man who had two sons ... went to the first and said, "Son, go out and work in my vineyard today." But he answered a…"

"[P]eople, act upon motives. Why should they do any thing for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their …"

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

"Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance."

"The Great Spirit placed me and my people on this land poor and naked. When the white men came we gave them lands, and…"

"Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens That one day bloomed and fruitful were the next."

"And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise t…"

"His promises were, as he then was, mighty; But his performance, as he is now, nothing."