There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace. — 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
