Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or upright:
“Truly an interesting spot to stand on,—if that were it,—though you could not sit down there.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question—to be defended from the beginning to the end.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)