The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is… — 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
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. — 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
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 man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of… — 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 Image
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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 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 have of… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Image
Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
