Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

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

It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations

I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.

My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.

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

We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

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

One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.

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

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.

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

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.

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

Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

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

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

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

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

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.

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

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.

I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.

Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

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.

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

As friends go it is less important to live.

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

Every expert was once a beginner.

It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.

One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.