Rutherford B. Hayes Quote

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.


Letter "to a leading editor" (10 April 1875), as quoted in The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes (1876) edited by James Quay Howard, ch. X, p. 144


The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.

The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher.