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 and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

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