Rutherford Birchard Hayes Quotes
- No political party can ever make prohibition effective. A political party implies an adverse, an opposing, political party. To enf orce criminal statutes implies substantial…
- These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostileto slavery] must be watched.Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the…
- I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can,…
- My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking…
- We got our new rifled muskets this morning. They are mostly old muskets, manyof them used, altered from flint-lock to percussion ... but the power…
- One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South,…