“For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.”

—  Rutherford B. Hayes

Diary (7 November 1841)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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