Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Hard, Keep, Times

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Nature, Human, Soul

The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Health, Country, Soon

Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can't soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Family, Wife, Ways

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Bad, Off, Habit

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
Rutherford B. Hayes

God, Conscience, Voice

The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Society, Progress, Condition

As friends go it is less important to live.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Live, Important, Friends

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Best, Succeed, Leave

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Vote, Possible, Debt

He serves his party best who serves his country best.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Best, Country, Party

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
Rutherford B. Hayes

Thought, Principle, Conduct

I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Education, Good, Business

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Thought, President, Congress

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Evil, Others, Sometimes

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

Politics, Good, Country

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Education, Power, Law

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

Marriage, Person, Blood

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Tests, Criminals, Treatment

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Business, Successful, Win

The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Happiness, Political, Bother

The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Best, Country, Fact

The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Truth, Night, Ready

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Sound, Universal, Principle

Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority.
Rutherford B. Hayes

Education, End, Made

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: October 4, 1822

Died: January 17, 1893

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