"A promise must never be broken."

                     "A promise must never be broken."
                                By: Alexander Hamilton

I can actually relate a lot to this. I agree with this and with what Mr.Haynmore said. You don't have to say 'I promise...' in order for you to stick to whatever you said. When you say you're going to do something, then you have to stick with it. Just because you didn't say 'I promise', it doesn't mean you can just forget about what you said and not do it anymore. You have to stick to it and do it like you said. There's no point in saying something or promising something that you're going to keep. You might think something simple like 'I'll be home by 10pm' is nothing bad and that not sticking to it might not affect anything. It actually can. By not sticking to what you say, you lose, for example in this case, your parents' trust, the amount of time you get to be out, get grounded, etc. When you break a promise, you're also breaking someone else's trust. You promised them something and you didn't stick to it. You broke it and didn't keep your promise. What makes you think that others are going to trust you now, if you broke your promise once, what's to make them think you won't do it again. That's the bad thing nowadays, people don't realize that just because you don't say 'I promsie', it doesn't mean you can just break it and pretend you never said it. If you say something, then stick to it. There's no point in saying something that you know you won't do. It hurts others as well because they lost their trust in you and depending on the kind of promise you broke, that can hurt too. You should always think about what you're going to say before you say it. I've been told many things, with 'I promise' and without it, and they've been broken many times by many people. An issue that most people now have is trusting issues. It's hard to trust others when many people have broken many promises.