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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.
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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Rutherford Birchard Hayes
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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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One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.
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Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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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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Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.
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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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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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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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Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.
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I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.
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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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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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If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them.
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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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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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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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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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As friends go it is less important to live.
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An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?
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I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.
Rutherford B. Hayes