While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I… — 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
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
Last evening attended Croghan Lodge International Order of Odd Fellows. Election of officers. Chosen Noble Grand. These social organizations have a number… — 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
There can be no complete and permanent reform of the civil service until public opinion emancipates congressmen from all control and influence… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious… — 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
