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
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
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
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
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
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
Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness,… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. — 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
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
My judgment is that neither House of Congress, nor both combined, have any right to interfere in the count. It is for… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
No officer should be required or permitted to take part in the management of political organizations, caucuses, conventions, or election campaigns. Their… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a… — 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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