Upton Defeated Democrat

Famous quotes containing the words defeated and/or democrat:

“He who succeeds is a king; he who is defeated is a bandit.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.”
—James Fenimore Cooper (1789–1851)