My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this business. I do not go into [it] with the zest of old times. Races, baseball, and politics are for the youngsters.


Letter to Lucy Webb Hayes (14 August 1875) - Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1922 - 1926)

Rutherford B. Hayes Quotes

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this...

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this...

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this...

My speaking is irregular. Sometimes quite good, sometimes not, but generally will do... I am too far along in experience and years both for this...