Quotes from Rutherford B. Hayes
He serves his party best who serves his country best.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
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
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
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
I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct).
- Rutherford B. Hayes
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
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself indeed, it seems to execute itself.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
It is now true that this is God's Country, if equal rights-a fair start and an equal chance in the race of life are everywhere secured to all.
- Rutherford B. Hayes
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