Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn't break and that the enemy's did.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Military, Enemy, Lines

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.499, BIG BYTE BOOKS

• The most noticeable weakness of Congressmen is their timidity. They fear the use to be made of their "record." They are afraid ofmaking enemies. They do not vote according to their convictions from fear of consequences.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Enemy, Weakness, Use

• These semi-traitors [Union generals who were not hostile to slavery] must be watched. Let us be careful who become army leaders in the reorganized army at the end of this Rebellion. The man who thinks that the perpetuity of slavery is essential to the existence of the Union, is unfit to be trusted. The deadliest enemy the Union has is slavery - in fact, its only enemy.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  War, Army, Men

  Diary entry. "Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Nineteenth President of the United States". Book edited by Charles Richard Williams, The Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, June 05, 1862.

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