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Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments.”

51. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I know I am going where Lucy is.”

52. “I know I am going where Lucy is.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

53. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

54. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

55. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “The man who does that which avails in reforms or other good works always has clubs thrown at him. The nobodies are passed over in Silence, or with good natured unmeaning compliments after they leave high places.”

56. “The man who does that which avails in reforms or other good works always has clubs thrown at him. The nobodies are passed over in Silence, or with good natured unmeaning compliments after they leave high places.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

57. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”

58. “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”

59. “We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.”

60. “I would strenuously urge a single term of six years.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.”

61. “I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it is a wretched business.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.”

62. “The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farmshould be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

63. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.”

64. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their “record.” They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.”

65. “The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their “record.” They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.”

66. “We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”

67. “If a liberal policy towards the late Rebels is adopted, the ultra Republicans are opposed to it; if the colored people are honored, the extremists of the other wing cry out against it. I suspect I am right in both cases.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

68. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

69. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “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.”

70. “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

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.”

71. “Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment – the sober second thought – of the people.”

72. “I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment – the sober second thought – of the people.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.”

73. “Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.”

74. “I would honor the man who give to his country a good newspaper.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.”

75. “I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”

76. “The man of large and conspicuous public service in civil life must be content without the Presidency. Still more, the availability of a popular man in a doubtful State will secure him the prize in a close contest against the first statesman of the country whose State is safe.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.”

77. “Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. They are hurt less by undeserved censure than by undeserved commendation. Abuse helps; often praise hurts.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question – to be defended from the beginning to the end.”

78. “I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question – to be defended from the beginning to the end.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford B. Hayes Quote: “One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.”

79. “One thing you may be sure of, I was not a party to covering up anything.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

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