Famous quotes containing the words successor, elected and/or december:
“The name of a successor is like the tolling of my own death-bell!”
—Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
“I was elected a Captain of Volunteers—a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“For I have lost the race I never ran,
A rathe December blights my lagging May;”
—Hartley Coleridge (1796–1849)