I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good… — 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
Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness; that is, of education, wealth, power. These… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their… — 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
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
