[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious ...civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Bible is good enough for me, just the old book under which I was brought up. I do not want notes or criticisms, or explanation...s about authorship or origins, or even cross- references. I do not need, or understand them, and they confuse me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, I do not want that office. When the American people choose a President they require him to remain awake four years. ...I have come to a time in life when I need my sleep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here were poor streets where faded gentility essayed with scanty space and shipwrecked means to make its last feeble stand, but ta...x-gatherer and creditor came there as elsewhere, and the poverty that yet faintly struggled was hardly less squalid and manifest than that which had long ago submitted and given up the game.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »