Famous Rutherford Birchard Hayes Quotations

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"A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Almost two months married.... A better wife I never hoped to have.... She bears with my 'innocent peculiarities' so kindly, so lovingly.... Le..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Anti-Nebraska, Know-Nothings, and general disgust with the powers that be, have carried this county [Hamilton County, Ohio] by between seven a..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"As friends go it is less important to live."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Conviction."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Colonel [John Charles] Fremont. Not a good picture, but will do to indicate my politics this year. For free States and against new slave State..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if ..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Fanny was not there! How she would have enjoyed the scene.... I could not but think of her, and in spite of my efforts to prevent, the unbidde..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distri..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Have been reading 'Genesis' several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for 'spiritual consolation,' 'instruction,' etc., not as an infidel read..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"How easily I could now let go of life!"
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"I am happy to be through with the war."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"I find that with me low spirits and feeble health come and go together. The last two or three months I have had frequent attacks of the blues...."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"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 enli..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"I must resist it [a rider on an appropriation bill] to the last extremity. I say, first, I object to the repeal of important legislation desig..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"I shall not be surprised if Colonel [John Charles] Fremont receives less than one hundred electoral votes. But, after all, the good cause has ..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"If the Union is now dissolved it does not prove that the experiment of popular government is a failure.... But the experiment of uniting free ..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"In Sumter and other counties [in South Carolina] the whites are resorting to intimidation and violence to prevent the colored people from orga..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; ind..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"It seems to me that the most important thing in Texas, as everywhere else, is education for all. I, of course, don't believe in forcing whites..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"My desire is that your office [the New York Customhouse] shall be conducted on strictly business principles.... In making appointments and rem..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Not being a K.N. [Know-Nothing] I am left as a sort of waif on the political sea with symptoms of a mild sort towards Black Republicanism."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Our wedding day, twenty years ago! A happy day. Darling is handsomer than she was then, with a glorious flow of friendly feeling and cheerfuln..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The gloomy theology of the orthodox—the Calvinists—I do not, I cannot believe. Many of the notions—nay, most of the notions—which orth..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The great questions of freedom for the slaves and the unity of the Nation, liberty and nationality, are now settled. No political or party rev..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The Senate and House in the Forty-sixth Congress being both Democratic will insist on the right to repeal the election laws [enforcing the Fou..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"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 of superstition..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"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."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be m..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"The Southern States are uneasy at the prospect of [Abraham] Lincoln's election today. The ultra South threatens disunion, and it now looks as ..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free s..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, ..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes
"While your rheumatism stays with you I naturally feel anxious to hear often. If you should be so unlucky as to become a cripple, it will certa..."
by Rutherford Birchard Hayes


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