For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading. — 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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