All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.

— Rutherford B. Hayes Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

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