Chance Quote by Rutherford B. Hayes

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

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

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

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

As friends go it is less important to live.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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

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