Famous quotes containing the words successfully and/or defended:
“What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.”
—Claud Cockburn (19041981)
“I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in questionto be defended from the beginning to the end.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (18221893)
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