Famous quotes containing the words appointed, successor and/or held:
“No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (15331603)
“[The] elderly and timid single gentleman in Paris ... never drove down the Champs Elysees without expecting an accident, and commonly witnessing one; or found himself in the neighborhood of an official without calculating the chances of a bomb. So long as the rates of progress held good, these bombs would double in force and number every ten years.”
—Henry Brooks Adams (18381918)
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