Personally I do not resort to force — not even the force of law — to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example — of fashion. Until these resources are exhausted I would not think of force.

— Rutherford B. Hayes Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922)

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