Diary (23 January 1881)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
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)
Diary (11 May 1875)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
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)
Diary (6 April 1886)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
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)
Speech, Marion, Ohio (31 July 1875)
As quoted in The Complete Book of U.S. Presidents (1991) by William A. DeGregorio, p. 290
Diary (1 March 1878)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Fourth State of the Union Address (6 December 1880)
Diary (13 July 1879)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Letter to Sophia Birchard Hayes (10 July 1862)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Fourth State of the Union Address (6 December 1880)
“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)
Letter to his son, Rutherford P. Hayes (26 February 1875)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Diary (17 February 1882)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (26 February 1875)
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)
Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (12 March 1865])
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Speech at New England Society Dinner, Brooklyn (21 December 1880)
Diary (14 July 1889)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (26 May 1862)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Diary(27 February 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Diary (7 November 1841)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
As quoted in Rutherford B. Hayes, and His America (1954) by Harry Barnard. p. 481
“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
Diary (12 December 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Letter to his son, Webb Hayes (20 March 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
Diary (11 August 1890)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)
On attempts at an alcohol prohibition amendment, in his Diary (9 October 1883)
Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)