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Rutherford Birchard Hayes egyesült államokbeli politikus, katonai vezető, 1877 és 1881 között hazájának 19. elnöke.

Az amerikai polgárháború kitörésekor csatlakozott az ohioi önkéntes gyalogsághoz, és 1861. június 27-én már a 23. ezred századosa volt, bár nem rendelkezett katonai tapasztalatokkal. Gyors emelkedése után a ranglétrán 1865. március 3-án az önkéntesek vezérőrnagyának nevezték ki.

Elnöki jelölésének idejére már széles körben ismert volt a polgárháborús években bizonyított becsületessége, és Ohio állam kormányzójaként lelkiismeretességével néha még politikai szövetségeseit is meglepte. Tulajdonságaival éles kontrasztban állt Grant kormányának viharos és botrányoktól hangos éveivel. Híres volt arról, hogy úgy tudott kommunikálni, hogy azzal senkit se sértsen meg.

1880-ban, megtartva ígéretét, nem indult újra az elnöki székért. Szívinfarktusának szövődményeibe halt bele 1893-ban. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. október 1822 – 17. január 1893
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Rutherford B. Hayes: Idézetek angolul

“The [Loyal] legion has taken the place of the club — the famous Cincinnati Literary Club — in my affections…. The military circles are interested in the same things with myself, and so we endure, if not enjoy, each other.”

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Letter to Fanny Hayes (1 November 1885)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Every good cause gained a victory when the Union troops were triumphant. Our final victory was the triumph of religion, of virtue, of knowledge…. During those four years, whatever our motives, whatever our lives, we were fighting on God’s side. We were doing His work. What would this country have been if we had failed?”

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Diary (27 October 1883)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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

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Letter "to a leading editor" (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/22037 edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144

“The President of the United States of necessity owes his election to office to the suffrage and zealous labors of a political party, the members of which cherish with ardor and regard as of essential importance the principles of their party organization; but he should strive to be always mindful of the fact that he serves his party best who serves the country best.”

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Inaugural Address (5 March 1877)

“The debt was the most sacred obligation incurred during the war. It was by no means the largest in amount. We do not haggle with those who lent us money. We should not with those who gave health and blood and life. If doors are opened to fraud, contrive to close them. But don’t deny the obligation, or scold at its performance.”

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About the Arrears of Pensions Act (1879) for disabled Union veterans, which Hayes cheerfully signed, which was roundly criticized as too expensive and too open to fraud by unscrupulous veterans fabricating service-related injuries.
Letter to William Henry Smith (19 December 1881)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“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.”

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Inaugural Address (5 March 1877)

“Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you.”

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Letter to his son, Scott R. Hayes (8 March 1892)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“We had an inspection today of the brigade. The Twenty-third was pronounced the crack regiment in appearance, … [but] I could see only six to ten in a company of the old men. They all smiled as I rode by. But as I passed away I couldn’t help dropping a few natural tears. I felt as I did when I saw them mustered in at Camp Chase.”

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Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (17 December 1864)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Constitutional statutes … which embody the settled public opinion of the people who enacted them and whom they are to govern — can always be enforced. But if they embody only the sentiments of a bare majority, pronounced under the influence of a temporary excitement, they will, if strenuously opposed, always fail of their object; nay, they are likely to injure the cause they are framed to advance.”

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Diary (17 February 1882)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.”

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Letter to Guy M. Bryan (1 January 1881)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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