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{{cquote|Texas has had quite enough of the civil service. There is one plank in the Democratic Party that I have ever admired, and that is, 'To the victors belong the spoils.' After we have won the race as we will, we will give those who are entitled to positions office. What are we up here for? I mean that members of the Republican Party are entitled to office, and if we are victorious we will have office.|||Webster Flanagan, June 1880}}

{{cquote|Texas has had quite enough of the civil service. There is one plank in the Democratic Party that I have ever admired, and that is, 'To the victors belong the spoils.' After we have won the race as we will, we will give those who are entitled to positions office. What are we up here for? I mean that members of the Republican Party are entitled to office, and if we are victorious we will have office.|||Webster Flanagan, June 1880}}

Flanagan's remarks elicited laughter at the convention, as the majority of delegates sympathetically concurred with his message. Two decades later, [[U.S. Supreme Court]] justice [[David Brewer]] listed the speech in "The World's Best Orations."<ref>Brewer, David J. (1900). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_s_Best_Orations/fA3FmZ0sZt4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA4004&printsec=frontcover The World's Best Orations], p. 4,004. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>

Flanagan's remarks elicited laughter at the convention, as the majority of delegates sympathetically concurred with his message. Two decades later, [[U.S. Supreme Court]] justice [[David Brewer]] listed the speech among "The World's Best Orations."<ref>Brewer, David J. (1900). [https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_World_s_Best_Orations/fA3FmZ0sZt4C?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=webster+flanagan+stalwart&pg=PA4004&printsec=frontcover The World's Best Orations], p. 4,004. ''Google Books''. Retrieved May 25, 2023.</ref>

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