Famous quotes containing the words appointed, officer and/or commanding:
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“Any officer fit for duty who at this crisis would abandon his post to electioneer for a seat in Congress ought to be scalped.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
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