As friends go it is less important to live. Rutherford B. Hayes More Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes More Quotes From Rutherford B. Hayes 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 other claims to public support. Rutherford B. Hayes realhurtmen The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. Rutherford B. Hayes noiseboyscountry I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). Rutherford B. Hayes methodconservativeprinciples Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. Rutherford B. Hayes elementsprinciplessound 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. Rutherford B. Hayes nightboyspeople The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. Rutherford B. Hayes independencepoliticalbother Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win. Rutherford B. Hayes girlfightingwinning The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. Rutherford B. Hayes progress-of-societyimprovementworld General [John] Pope is impulsive and hasty, but energetic, and, what is of most importance, patriotic and sound--perfectly sound.I look for good results. Rutherford B. Hayes patrioticsoundwar It will be the duty of the Executive, with sufficient appropriations for the purpose, to prosecute unsparingly all who have been engaged in depriving citizens of the rights guaranteed to them by the Constitution. Rutherford B. Hayes patrioticcitizensrights In the great and deep qualities of mind, heart, and soul, there is no change. Homer and Solomon speak to the same nature in man that is reached by Shakespeare and Lincoln. but in the accidents, the surroundings, the change is vast. All things now are mobile--movable. Rutherford B. Hayes soulheartmen 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 bachelorswifeway I am asked if I would not be gratified if my friends would procure me promotion to a brigadier-generalship. My feeling is that I would rather be one of the good colonels than one of the poor generals. The colonel of a regiment has one of the most agreeable positions in the service, and one of the most useful. "A good colonel makes a good regiment," is an axiom. Rutherford B. Hayes promotionfeelingswar While I am in favor of the Government promptly enforcing the laws for the present, defending the forts and collecting the revenue,I am not in favor of a war policy with a view to the conquest of any of the slave States; except such as are needed to give us a good boundary. If Maryland attempts to go off, suppress her in order to save the Potomac and the District of Columbia. Cut a piece off of western Virginia and keep Missouri and all the Territories. Rutherford B. Hayes virginiacuttingwar If any of my men kill prisoners, I'll kill them. Rutherford B. Hayes prisonermenwar How strange a scene is this in which we are such shifting figures, pictures, shadows. The mystery of our existence--I have no faith in any attempted explanation of it. It is all a dark, unfathomed profound. Rutherford B. Hayes faithdarkprofound 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. Rutherford B. Hayes educationopportunityhappiness It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. Rutherford B. Hayes debt-freedebtorshard-times 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 effortlawletters You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest. Rutherford B. Hayes zestfamilyeye
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