The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy. -Rutherford B. Hayes Health
The bold enterprises are the successful ones. Take counsel of hopes rather than of fears to win in this business. -Rutherford B. Hayes Business
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. -Rutherford B. Hayes Education
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 Nature
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 Politics
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. -Rutherford B. Hayes Best
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 Family
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 Education
The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. -Rutherford B. Hayes Society
No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. -Rutherford B. Hayes Marriage
