Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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
Succeed
Survival
Us
Related Quotes:
" To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Debt
Duty
Vote
" Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Conscience
You
Authentic
" Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Right
Principle
Suffrage
" 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
People
Truth
Truth Is
" 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
Believe
Say
Soul
" The President of the United States should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves his country best. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Always
Strive
Party
" Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Praise
Men
Unjust
" Let every man, every corporation, and especially let every village, town, and city, every county and State, get out of debt and keep out of debt. It is the debtor that is ruined by hard times. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Debt
Hard
Keep
" As friends go it is less important to live. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Go
Live
Friends
" One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Treatment
Civilization
People
" Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Mediocrity
Virtue
Which
" 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
Myself
Innocent
I Am
" The independence of all political and other bother is a happiness. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Happiness
Political
Independence
" Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Swearing
Bad
Habit
" 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
You
Your
Bachelor
" 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
Business
Think
I Am
" No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Office
Blood
Connected
" The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Country
Noise
Destroy
" The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Improvement
World
Progress
" I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct). "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Thought
Principle
Conservative
" 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
Thought
Politicians
I Am
" The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Business
Bold
Successful
" It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Our
Good
People
" 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
Questions
Time
Power
" He serves his party best who serves his country best. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Best
He
His
" Universal suffrage should rest upon universal education. To this end, liberal and permanent provision should be made for the support of free schools by the State governments, and, if need be, supplemented by legitimate aid from national authority. "
Rutherford B. Hayes
Rest
Support
Education