Strikes and boycotting are akin to war, and can be justified only on grounds analogous to those which justify war, viz., intolerable injustice and oppression. Rutherford Hayes
He serves his party best who serves his country best. Rutherford Hayes
In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. Rutherford Hayes
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. Rutherford Hayes
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. Rutherford Hayes
Do not let your bachelor ways crystallise so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. Rutherford Hayes
All free governments are party governments. Rutherford Hayes
The study of tools as well as of books should have a place in the public schools. Tools, machinery, and the implements of the farm should be made familiar to every boy, and suitable industrial education should be furnished for every girl. Rutherford Hayes