Frases de Rutherford B. Hayes
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Rutherford Birchard Hayes fue un político estadounidense, abogado, líder militar y el 19.º presidente de los Estados Unidos entre 1877 y 1881. Como presidente, supervisó la era de la Reconstrucción de los Estados Unidos y restauró la confianza en el gobierno. Fue un reformista que llevó a cabo la reforma de la función pública y trató de reconciliar las divisiones heredadas de la Guerra Civil y la Reconstrucción.

Nativo de Ohio, Hayes ejerció la abogacía. Se convirtió en abogado en la ciudad de Cincinnati desde 1858 hasta 1861. Cuando la Guerra Civil comenzó, Hayes dejó una exitosa carrera política para unirse al Ejército de la Unión como oficial. Herido cinco veces, más gravemente en la Batalla de la Montaña del Sur, se ganó una buena reputación por su valentía en combate y fue ascendido al rango de mayor general. Tras la guerra, sirvió en el Congreso entre 1865 y 1867 por el Partido Republicano. Hayes abandonó el congreso para ejercer el cargo de Gobernador de Ohio; fue elegido dos veces, sirviendo desde 1868 hasta 1872, y una vez más en los años 1876-77. En 1872, Hayes miró el teléfono de Alexander Graham Bell y le dijo que era un gran invento, aunque se preguntó quién querría usarlo.[1]​

No se presentó de nuevo a las elecciones presidenciales de 1880, manteniendo su promesa de que no se presentaría a un segundo mandato. Hayes murió de complicaciones de un ataque cardiaco en Fremont, Ohio en 1893. Wikipedia  

✵ 4. octubre 1822 – 17. enero 1893
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Rutherford B. Hayes: Frases en inglés

“I am a freeman and jolly as a beggar.”

On retiring as governor of Ohio, in a letter to William Johnston (7 January 1872)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.”

Diary (11 May 1875)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Youth, however, is a defect that she is fast getting away from and may perhaps be entirely rid of before I shall want her.”

About Lucy Webb, nine years his junior, whom he later married, in a letter to his sister, Fanny Hayes Platt (23 October 1847)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“Perhaps the happiest moment of my life was then, when I saw that our line didn’t break and that the enemy’s did.”

About the success of the crucial charge he led at Opequon, in a letter to Sardis Birchard (20 December 1864)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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

As quoted in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1991) by William A. DeGregorio, p. 290

“Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.”

Diary (21 December 1843), referring to Aristotle's Ethics
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“One of the tests of the civilization of people is the treatment of its criminals.”

Diary (30 October 1892)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“The progress of society is mainly—is, in its proper sense, the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world.”

Diary(27 February 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

“That's an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”

Reportedly to Alexander Graham Bell after a demonstration of the telephone, as quoted in Future Mind : The Microcomputer-New Medium, New Mental Environment (1982) by Edward J. Lias, p. 2 but author did not footnote or in any other way cite a source for the quotation, and the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center has found no primary-source evidence that Rutherford B. Hayes made the comment. The same article erroneously states that President Hayes had his first experience with the telephone in 1876 in a "trial conversation between Washington and Philadephia." Rutherford B. Hayes was president of the United States in the years 1877-1881. His well documented experience with the telephone occurred in 1877 while Hayes was in Rhode Island. Prior to becomng disputed here, this statement was treated as probably spurious in "Obama’s whopper about Rutherford B. Hayes and the telephone" in the Washington Post (16 March 2012) http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/obamas-whopper-about-rutherford-b-hayes-and-the-telephone/2012/03/15/gIQAel6SFS_blog.html?wprss=fact-checker, which asserts Hayes installed a phone only months later, and that the Providence Journal (29 June 1877) reported his words during the demonstration as "That is wonderful!"
Disputed

“Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own.”

Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (20 March 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

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