Rutherford B. Hayes

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.

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

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office-seeking. Men of good character and impulses are betrayed by it into all sorts of meanness.

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.

The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.

It is a government by the corporations, for the corporations.

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

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

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.