Famous quotes containing the words height and/or measures:
“It’s the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)
“One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a sound currency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)