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 More Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes More Quotes From Rutherford B. Hayes Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. Rutherford B. Hayes plutocracypovertyifs An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one? Rutherford B. Hayes telephonesusewant The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. Rutherford B. Hayes competitionsurvivaldoe Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers. Rutherford B. Hayes plutocracyincreasepoverty The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best. Rutherford B. Hayes partyorganizationcountry Have been reading "Genesis" several Sundays, not as a Christian reads for "spiritual consolation," "instruction," etc., not as aninfidel reads to carp and quarrel and criticize, but as one who wishes to be informed and furnished in the earliest and most wonderful of all literary productions. The literature of the Bible should be studied as one studies Shakespeare, for illustration and language, for its true pictures of man and woman nature, for its early historical record. Rutherford B. Hayes spiritualchristianbible One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. Rutherford B. Hayes presidentialcivilizationpeople My policy is trust peace and to put aside the bayonet. Rutherford B. Hayes bayonetspolicy Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness. Rutherford B. Hayes officecharactermen I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for supporting churches, if there were no higher. Rutherford B. Hayes churchreasondoe 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. Rutherford B. Hayes silenceoddstwo No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. Rutherford B. Hayes connectedofficeblood Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did. Rutherford B. Hayes linesmilitaryenemy Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion. Rutherford B. Hayes fashionexamplelaw We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. Rutherford B. Hayes losingspiritnight The sacred obligation to the Union soldiers must not - will not be forgotten nor neglected. But those who fought against the Nation cannot and do not look to it for relief. Confederate soldiers and their descendants are to share with us and our descendants the destiny of America. Whatever, therefore, we their fellow citizens can do to remove burdens from their shoulders and to brighten their lives is surely in the pathway of humanity and patriotism. Rutherford B. Hayes destinysoldieramerica 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. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November. Rutherford B. Hayes realwarhands The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good. Rutherford B. Hayes knownworld No capitalists after any war were ever so well paid for money loaned to the nation that carried it on. No class of money-makers ever gained such prosperity by any other war, as our War for the Union brought to the money-getters of America. All this was due in great measure to the rank and file of the Union army. Now let no rich man haggle with a needy veteran of that war about his right to a pension! Rutherford B. Hayes armymenwar For character, to prepare for the inevitable I recommend selections from [Ralph Waldo] Emerson. His writings have done for me far more than all other reading. Rutherford B. Hayes readingwritingcharacter
