Appointed Successor Held

Famous quotes containing the words appointed, successor and/or held:

“In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are, what the should be, burthens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring with them intense labor and great private loss.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)

“The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)