One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor at all… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share
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