To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. Rutherford B. Hayes More Quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes More Quotes From Rutherford B. Hayes Evening attend two "fandangos." Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc., in a basket to be taken home for the family. Rutherford B. Hayes girltakenhome I would strenuously urge a single term of six years. Rutherford B. Hayes sixtermyears Both parties are injured by what is going on at Washington. Both are, therefore, more and more disposed to look for candidates outside of that atmosphere. Rutherford B. Hayes atmospherepartylooks We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable. Rutherford B. Hayes naturechildrenpeople Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her. Rutherford B. Hayes youthwantmay 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. Rutherford B. Hayes goes-onwarhands One point in my public life: I did all I could for the reform of the civil service, for the building up of the South, for a soundcurrency, etc., etc., but I never forgot my party.... I knew that all good measures would suffer if my Administration was followed by the defeat of my party. Result, a great victory in 1880. Executive and legislature both completely Republican. Rutherford B. Hayes building-uppoliticalparty The President...should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best. Rutherford B. Hayes I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required. Rutherford B. Hayes i-amgoodbusinesseducation
