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1. "The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
2. "The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
3. "Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
4. "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
5. "As friends go it is less important to live." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
6. "Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
7. "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
8. "No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
9. "To vote is like the payment of a debt, a duty never to be neglected, if its performance is possible." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
10. "I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
11. "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
12. "Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
13. "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
14. "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
15. "One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
16. "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
17. "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
18. "Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
19. "Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
20. "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." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
21. "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
22. "Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
23. "He serves his party best who serves his country best." ~ Rutherford B. Hayes
24. "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

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