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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
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
Delaware
Ohio
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford Hayes
R. B. Hayes
President Hayes
Friends
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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.
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For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading.
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It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
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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.
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My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet.
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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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He serves his party best who serves the country best.
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The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete.
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All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.
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I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.
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So far as laws and institutions avail, men should have equality of opportunity for happiness that is, of education, wealth, power. These make happiness secure. An equal diffusion of happiness so far as laws and institutions avail.
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The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.
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Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
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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 of meanness.
Rutherford B. Hayes
We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.
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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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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
Rutherford B. Hayes
I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
Rutherford B. Hayes
I do not think a revival of business will be greatly postponed by [Samuel J.] Tilden's election. Business prosperity does not, inmy judgment, depend on government so much as men commonly think.
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