Rutherford B. Hayes1822–1893The quotations of
Rutherford B. Hayes
President of the United States from 1877 to 1881
1822–1893
10 quotes, most often on Money, Economics and War & Peace. Part of the U.S. Presidents collection.
The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.
Letter “to a leading editor” (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144
