3 Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes on Public opinion

Rutherford B. Hayes quotes on public opinion

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

38. 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 sober second thought - of the people.

48. 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 majority, pronounced under the influence of a temporary excitement, they will, if strenuously opposed, always fail of their object; nay, they are likely to injure the cause they are framed to advance.