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One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.
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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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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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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The gloomy theology of the orthodox--the Calvinists--I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions--nay, most of the notions--which orthodox people have of the divinity of the Bible, I disbelieve. I am so nearly infidel in all my views, that too, in spite of my wishes, that none but the most liberal doctrines can command my assent.
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As friends go it is less important to live.
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
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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.
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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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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
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The religion of the Bible is the best in the world. I see the infinite value of religion. Let it be always encouraged. A world ofsuperstition and folly have grown up around its forms and ceremonies. But the truth in it is one of the deep sentiments in human nature.
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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.
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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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He serves his party best who serves the country best.
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Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.
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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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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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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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