Rutherford B. Hayes

"Constitutional statutes … which embody the settled public opinion of the people who enacted them and whom they are to govern — can always be enforced. But if they embody only the sentiments of a bare …"

"I still feel just as I told you, that I shall come safely out of this war. I felt so the other day when danger was near. I certainly enjoyed the excitement of fighting our way out of Giles to the Narr…"

"My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into with the zest of old times. …"

"We have now become pretty well acquainted with the sugar-growing part of Texas. The life of a planter who has a fair start in the world is one of the most independent imaginable. We here find the plea…"

"Rutherford Hayes' Gravesite"

"Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did."

"The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential …"

"The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first half my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery an…"