Quote #35

Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.

More from Rutherford B. Hayes

  1. I hope you will be benefitted by your churchgoing. Where the habit does not Christianize, it generally civilizes. That is reason enough for…
  2. My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for…
  3. 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 - su…
  4. My policy is trust, peace, and to put aside the bayonet. I do not think the wise policy is to decide contested elections in the States by t…
  5. I regard the inflation acts as wrong in all ways. Personally I am one of the noble army of debtors, and can stand it if others can. But it …
  6. I am not liked as a President by the politicians in office, in the press, or in Congress. But I am content to abide the judgment - the sobe…
  7. I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I…
  8. General education is the best preventive of the evils now most dreaded. In the civilized countries of the world, the question is how to dis…

All Rutherford B. Hayes quotes