It would conduce to national ...

It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.
It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out.

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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Be the change that you want to see in the world.
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It is the quality of our work which will please God, not the quantity.