Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford Birchard Hayeswas the 19th President of the United States. As president, he oversaw the end of Reconstruction, began the efforts that led to civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionUS President
Date of Birth4 October 1822
CityDelaware, OH
CountryUnited States of America
Rutherford B. Hayes quotes about
odds two silence
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.
evil sometimes appearance
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.
principles elements sound
Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.
nature children people
We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.
political independence bother
The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness.
want may youth
Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.
church doe enough
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.
temptation age lines
Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.
ambition self office
My ambition for station was always easily controlled. If the place came to me it was welcome. But it never seemed to me worth seeking at the cost of self-respect, or independence. My family were not historic; they were well-to-do, did not hold or seek office. It was easy for me to be contented in private life. An honor was no honor to me, if obtained by my own seeking.
education school hobbies
My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education.
party covering may
One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.
party building-up political
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.
ignorance responsibility opportunity
Crimes increase as education, opportunity, and property decrease. Whatever spreads ignorance, poverty and, discontent causes crime.... Criminals have their own responsibility, their own share of guilt, but they are merely the hand.... Whoever interferes with equal rights and equal opportunities is in somereal degree, responsible for the crimes committed in the community.
eye portraits truthful
He [William Merritt Chase] is, I suspect, getting a very truthful likeness. I would like it better if [it] was not so gray, so cramped about the eyes, and not quite so corpulent. But is this not quarreling with nature?