My hobby more and more is likely to be common school education, or universal education. — Rutherford B. Hayes

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

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Personally I do not resort to force–not even the force of law–to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example–of fashion. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years. — Rutherford B. Hayes

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Unjust attacks on public men do them more good than unmerited praise. — Rutherford B. Hayes

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. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without neglecting imperative duties. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Busy replying to letters from divers office–seekers. They come by the dozens. — Rutherford B. Hayes

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office–seeking. — Rutherford B. 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 B. Hayes

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. — Rutherford B. Hayes

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice. — Rutherford B. Hayes

An amazing invention–but who would ever want to use one? — Rutherford B. Hayes

In avoiding the appearance of evil, I am not sure but I have sometimes unnecessarily deprived myself and others of innocent enjoyments. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I know I am going where Lucy is. — Rutherford B. Hayes

We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met. — Rutherford B. Hayes