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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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Rutherford B. Hayes
Age: 70 †
Born: 1822
Born: October 4
Died: 1893
Died: January 17
19Th U.S. President
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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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If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
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I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.
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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.
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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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I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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I too mean to be out of politics. The ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment gives me the boon of equality before the law, terminates my enlistment, and discharges me cured.
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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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The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.
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The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
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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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The best hopes of any community rest upon that class of its gifted young men who are not encumbered with large possessions.... I now speak of extensive scholarship and ripe culture in science and art.... It is not large possessions, it is large expectations, or rather large hopes, that stimulate the ambition of the young.
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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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Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.
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It is a government of the people by the people for the people no longer it is a government of corporations by corporations for corporations
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The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
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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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I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
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