Rutherford B. Hayes quotes - page 2

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business. View quote
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Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her. View quote
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Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. View quote
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Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did. View quote
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It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. View quote
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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. View quote
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I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher. View quote
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The only road, the sure road to unquestioned credit and a sound financial condition is the exact and punctual fulfilment of every pecuniary obligation, public and private, according to its letter and spirit. View quote
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The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. View quote
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The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies. View quote
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Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself. View quote
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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). View quote
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As friends go it is less important to live. View quote
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The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. View quote
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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. View quote
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No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. View quote
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. View quote
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. View quote
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The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected.... But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief.... Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Coming in, I was denounced as a fraud by all the extreme men of the opposing party, and as an ingrate and a traitor by the same class of men in my own party. Going out, I have the good will, blessings, and approval of the best people of all parties . . . View quote
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I am heartily tired of this life of bondage, responsibility, and toil. I wish it was at an end.... We are both physically very healthy.... Our tempers are cheerful. We are social and popular. But it is one of our greatest comforts that the pledge not to take a second term relieves us from considering it. That was a lucky thing. It is a reform - or rather a precedent for a reform, which will be valuable. View quote
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The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first half [of] my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery and secondly to destroy it.... The second half of my political life has been to rebuild, and to get rid of the despotic and corrupting tendencies and the animosities of the war, and other legacies of slavery. View quote
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Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. View quote
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