Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

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

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Patriotic, People

  Fourth State of the Union Address, December 6, 1880.

• The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Insane, Desire, Getting High

  Letter "to a leading editor" on April 10, 1875. "The Life Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes", edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144, www.gutenberg.org. 2007.

• Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Country, Color, Best Effort

  Inaugural Address, en.wikisource.org. March 05, 1877.

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