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Rutherford B. Hayes

Rutherford Birchard Hayes (October 4, 1822 – January 17, 1893) was an American congressman, governor of Ohio, and the 19th president of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Hayes was a lawyer and staunch abolitionist who defended runaway slaves in court proceedings. He was seriously wounded fighting in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He assumed the presidency at the end of the Reconstruction Era through the Compromise of 1877. In office he ended Army support for Republican state governments in the South, promoted civil service reform, and attempted to reconcile the divisions left over from the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.

Beggar, Freeman, Jolly, Public Service

No man, however benevolent, liberal, and wise, can use a large fortune so that it will do half as much good in the world as it would if it were divided into moderate sums and in the hands of workmen who had earned it by industry and frugality. The piling up of estates often does great and conspicuous good. . . . But no man does with accumulated wealth so much good as the same amount would do in many hands.

Half, Hands, Large, Men, Wise, Workmen

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.

Country, Fact, Party, President, Serves, Strive

Disunion and civil war are at hand; and yet I fear disunion and war less than compromise. We can recover from them. The free States alone, if we must go on alone, will make a glorious nation. Twenty millions in the temperate zone, stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific, full of vigor, industry, inventive genius, educated, and moral; increasing by immigration rapidly, and, above all, free--all free--will form a confederacy of twenty States scarcely inferior in real power to the unfortunate Union of thirty-three States which we had on the first of November.

Fear, Free, Hand, Hands, Real, War

The California fever is not likely to take us off. . . . There is neither romance nor glory in digging for gold after the manner of the pictures in the geography of diamond washing in Brazil.

California, Romance, Gold, Take, Washing

Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.

May, Want, Youth, Rid, Entirely, Defect

Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.

Increase, Plutocracy, Poverty

He serves his party best who serves the country best.

Art, Country, Party, Presidential, Serves

I have the greatest aversion to being a candidate on a ticket with a man whose record as an upright public man is to be in question--to be defended from the beginning to the end.

Aversion, Man, Men, Records, Ticket

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

Country, Desire, Patriotic, People, Sectionalism

An amazing invention - but who would ever want to use one?

Amazing, Invention, Telephones, Use, Want

Is this not true--That in proportion to the value of their estates the extremely wealthy pay far less taxes than those of moderatemeans? Compare the amount paid by millionaires with the amount paid by ordinary citizens. I believe that in proportion to their estates they pay less than half as much as ordinary citizens, whereas they ought to pay more.

Believe, Citizens, Half, Ordinary, Proportion, Taxes

Evening attend two "fandangos. " Girls not very pretty but exceedingly graceful. [You] pay a dime for a figure and refreshments foryour doxy, who instead of eating prudently stores her cakes, etc. , in a basket to be taken home for the family.

Girl, Taken, Home, Prudently, Graceful, Dime

My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad. But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure - such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek. If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.

Bed, Blush, Bringing, Cheek, Mother, Two

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.

Debt Free, Hard Times, Man, Men, Ruined, Times

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.

Character, Men, Nothing, Office, Traits

The ex-Presidential situation has its advantages, but with them are certain drawbacks. The correspondence is large. The meritorious demands on one are large. More independent out than in place, but still something of the bondage of the place that was willingly left. On the whole, however, I find many reasons to be content.

Advantages, Independent, Presidential, Retirement, Whole

Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.

Disappointment, General, Heart, Nobody, Regret

The best religion the world has ever known is the religion of the Bible. It builds up all that is good.

Bible, Builds, Good, Known, World

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

Appointed, Blood, Connected, Marriage, Office

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