Rutherford B. Hayes quotes - page 4

Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this - their ability to preserve order and protect rights without the aid of government? (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to. View quote
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One of its [James A. Garfield's assassination] lessons, perhaps its most important lesson, is the folly, the wickedness, and the danger of the extreme and bitter partisanship which so largely prevails in our country. View quote
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As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property. View quote
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General Crook gave me a very agreeable present this afternoon - a pair of his old brigadier-general straps. View quote
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My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do. View quote
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I feel the desire to be with you all the time. View quote
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I know perfectly well that the rank has been conferred on all sorts of small people and so cheapened shamefully, but I can't help feeling that getting it at the close of a most bloody campaign on the recommendation of fighting generals like Crook and Sheridan is a different thing. View quote
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I know we are in frequent perils, that we may never return and all that, but the feeling that I am where I ought to be is a full compensation for all that is sinister, leaving me free to enjoy as if on a pleasure tour. View quote
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Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters. View quote
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General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. View quote
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As to Mr. Lincoln's name and fame and memory, - all is safe. View quote
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You use the phrase "brutal Rebels.” Don't be cheated in that way. There are enough "brutal Rebels” no doubt, but we have brutal officers and men too. View quote
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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 we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. View quote
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These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. - Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy. View quote
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I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done. This talent, or these two talents, I have cultivated. Silence and concise, brief speaking have got me some laurels, and, I suspect, lost me some. No odds. Do what is natural to you, and you are sure to get all the recognition you are entitled to. View quote
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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. View quote
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General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to distribute most generally and equally the property of the world. As a rule, where education is most general the distribution of property is most general.... As knowledge spreads, wealth spreads. To diffuse knowledge is to diffuse wealth. To give all an equal chance to acquire knowledge is the best and surest way to give all an equal chance to acquire property. View quote
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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. - How is this? View quote
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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. They are not replied to - no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion. (Rutherford B. Hayes)
Every expert was once a beginner. View quote
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I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper. View quote
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Shall the railroads govern the country, or shall the people govern the railroads? Shall the interest of railroad kings be chieflyregarded, or shall the interest of the people be paramount? View quote
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The reform [of the civil service] should be thorough, radical, and complete. View quote
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