The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man.... From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — 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
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
Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
[T]his free and easy old-bachelor sort of life is quite full of fun and jollity. Pease and myself room together; and everything… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up… — 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
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