Rutherford Birchard Hayes Quotes

All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack...

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Letter to William McKinley 27 December 1892.

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One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 30 October 1892.

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Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Letter to his son, Scott R. Hayes - 8 March 1892.

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Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit. The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers....

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 3 January 1892.

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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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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 12 December 1890.

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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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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 11 August 1890.

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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.

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Letter to his son, Webb Hayes - 20 March 1890.

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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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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 27 February 1890.

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Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 16 February 1890.

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Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

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Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes - 1922 - 1926. - Diary - 14 July 1889.

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