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Rutherford B. Hayes

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

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"In the midst of vice we are in virtue, and vice versa."

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"Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world."

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"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."

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"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

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"A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice."

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"The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort."

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"No man can purchase his virtue too dear, for it is the only thing whose value must ever increase with the price it has cost us. Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it."

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"Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right."
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"The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy."
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"We are in a period when old questions are settled and the new are not yet brought forward. Extreme party action, if continued in such a time, would ruin the party. Moderation is its only chance. The party out of power gains by all partisan conduct of those in power."
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"It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'"
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"The truth is, this being errand boy to one hundred and fifty thousand people tires me so by night I am ready for bed instead of soirees."
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"The progress of society is mainly the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world."
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"I am a radical in thought (and principle) and a conservative in method (and conduct)."
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"Law without education is a dead letter. With education the needed law follows without effort and, of course, with power to execute itself; indeed, it seems to execute itself."
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"I am less disposed to think of a West Point education as requisite for this business than I was at first. Good sense and energy are the qualities required."
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"No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office."
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