Stand Firm

Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or firm:

“A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)

“My course is a firm assertion and maintenance of the rights of the colored people of the South according to the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, coupled with a readiness to recognize all Southern people, without regard to past political conduct, who will now go with me heartily and in good faith in support of these principles.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)