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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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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Delaware
Ohio
Rutherford Birchard Hayes
Rutherford Hayes
R. B. Hayes
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
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Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere.
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I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
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I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.
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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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If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
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I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties.
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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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