Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

• We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.

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• Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

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• Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

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• Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

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• Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.

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• Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

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• To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

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• The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

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• 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.

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

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• 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.

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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.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Topics in Education, Power

• 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

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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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