Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

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.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment the sober second thought of the people.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

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.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.
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The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.
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The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

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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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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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
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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.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.
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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.
- Rutherford B. Hayes Quote