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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 Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

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We can travel longer, night and day, without losing our spirits than almost any persons we ever met.

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Fighting battles is like courting girls: those who make the most pretensions and are boldest usually win.

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

I have a talent for silence and brevity. I can keep silent when it seems best to do so, and when I speak I can, and do usually, quit when I am done.

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The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital.

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