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Rutherford B. Hayes
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“The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. — How is this?”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1888 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (11 March 1888])
“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 (1822–1893) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Oliver Downing (15 March 1889)
“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 (1822–1893) first seen 1889 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (14 July 1889)
“Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (16 February 1890)
“The progress of society is mainly—is, in its proper sense, the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary(27 February 1890)
“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 (1822–1893) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (20 March 1890)
“Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier’s occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (11 August 1890)
“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 (1822–1893) first seen 1890 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (12 December 1890)
“Partisanship should be kept out of the pulpit... The blindest of partisans are preachers. All politicians expect and find more candor, fairness, and truth in politicians than in partisan preachers. They are not replied to — no chance to reply to them.... The balance wheel of free institutions is free discussion. The pulpit allows no free discussion.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (3 January 1892)
“Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to his son, Scott R. Hayes (8 March 1892)
“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (30 October 1892)
“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 (1822–1893) first seen 1892 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to William McKinley (27 December 1892)
“Is there anything in which the people of this age and country differ more from those of other lands and former times than in this — their ability to preserve order and protect rights without the aid of government? … We are realizing the paradox, “that country is governed best which is governed least.” I no longer fear lynch law. Let the people be intelligent and good, and I am not sure but their impulsive, instinctive verdicts and sentences and executions, unchecked by the rules and technicalities of law, are more likely to be according to substantial justice than the decisions of courts and juries.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1851 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Diary (23 July 1851)
“As to Mr. Lincoln’s name and fame and memory, — all is safe. His firmness, moderation, goodness of heart; his quaint humor, his perfect honesty and directness of purpose; his logic his modesty his sound judgment, and great wisdom; the contrast between his obscure beginnings and the greatness of his subsequent position and achievements; his tragic death, giving him almost the crown of martyrdom, elevate him to a place in history second to none other of ancient or modern times. His success in his great office, his hold upon the confidence and affections of his countrymen, we shall all say are only second to Washington’s; we shall probably feel and think that they are not second even to his.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1865 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (16 April 1865)
“One of its [James A. Garfield’s assassination] lessons, perhaps its most important lesson, is the folly, the wickedness, and the danger of the extreme and bitter partisanship which so largely prevails in our country. This partisan bitterness is greatly aggravated by that system of appointments and removals which deals with public offices as rewards for services rendered to political parties or to party leaders. Hence crowds of importunate place-hunters of whose dregs Guiteau is the type. The required reform [of the civil service] will be accomplished whenever the people imperatively demand it, not only of their Executive, but also of their legislative officers. With it, the class to which the assassin belongs will lose their occupation, and the temptation to try “to administer government by assassination” will be taken away.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) first seen 1881 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Letter to Emile Kahn (1 October 1881)
“He serves his party best who serves the country best.”
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) said by 1893 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source