Words matter. These are the best Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
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.
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
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.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
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 radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
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.
As friends go it is less important to live.
We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.
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.
