Famous quotes containing the words stand and/or upright:
“A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“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)