Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches



Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes and Sayings


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    As friends go it is less important to live. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    He serves his party best who serves his country best. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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    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 | Refcard PDF
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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 | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF
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    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. Rutherford B. Hayes | Refcard PDF

 

  

  

 

  

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