Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

• Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in God

  Tags in Conscience

• As friends go it is less important to live.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Live, Friends

• I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Sense, Energy

• Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Wife, Come

• I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, Principle

• He serves his party best who serves his country best.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Best

• I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thought, President

• It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…’

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Country, Politics

• In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Myself, Evil

• 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.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Education, Power

• Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Hard, Times

• The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Business

  Tags in Successful, Win

• One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Tests, Criminals, Treatment

• 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.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Best, Fact

• The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Progress, Society

  Tags in Condition

• The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Country, Health

• No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, Marriage

• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bad, Must

• The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happiness, Political

• The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Ready

Rutherford B. Hayes (28)

Birth:	4th October, 1822
Death:	17th January, 1893
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Rutherford Birchard Hayes was the 19th President of the United States. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the Second Industrial Revolution. Hayes was a reformer who began the efforts that led to civil service reform and attempted, unsuccessfully, to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American Civil War fifteen years earlier.

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