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He serves his party best who serves the country best.
Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford B. Hayes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1822
Born: October 4
Died: 1893
Died: January 17
19Th U.S. President
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The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their record. They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.
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Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.
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Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression.
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Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
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My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by the use of the national army.
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If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
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Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.
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I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher.
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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
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Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
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I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
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One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.
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We all agree that neither the Government nor political parties ought to interfere with religious sects. It is equally true that religious sects ought not to interfere with the Government or with political parties. We believe that the cause of good government and the cause of religion both suffer by all such interference.
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Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
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The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.
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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.
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