“We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.”

— Rutherford B. Hayes

Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (23 November 1864)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Context: When the weather is bad as it was yesterday, everybody, almost everybody, feels cross and gloomy. Our thin linen tents — about like a fish seine, the deep mud, the irregular mails, the never to-be-seen paymasters, and “the rest of mankind,” are growled about in “old-soldier” style. But a fine day like today has turned out brightens and cheers us all. We people in camp are merely big children, wayward and changeable.

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