All Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes
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
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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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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...'
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