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Desire Politics People

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

Other quotes by Rutherford B. Hayes

Performance Duty

To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

Men

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

Truth Being People

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

Virtue

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

- Rutherford B. Hayes

Family

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

Business Sense First

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

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