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Be Impeccable With Your Word
How this 1st of 4 agreements can help us return to civility
Quotes from each of the four US Presidents memorialized on Mount Rushmore:
George Washington — The 1st President of the United States of America
“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.” ― George Washington
Thomas Jefferson — The 4th President of the United States of America
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” ― Thomas Jefferson
Theodore Roosevelt — The 26th President of the United States of America
“To educate a person in the mind but not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln — The 16th President of the United States of America
“in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity.”
― Abraham Lincoln
In his landmark book “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom” Author Don Miguel Ruiz defined the 1st of 4 Agreements.
