The unrestricted competition ...

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.
 Rutherford B. Hayes

More phrases

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
 Eric Liddell
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
 Knute Rockne
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
 Ted Williams
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
 Robert Griffin III
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
 Joe Adcock

Quotes from the same author

My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.
 Rutherford B. Hayes
My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad. But let your words and conduct be perfectly pure - such as your mother might know without bringing a blush to your cheek. If not already mentioned, do not tell your mother of the doubling in bed.
 Rutherford B. Hayes
All appointments hurt. Five friends are made cold or hostile for every appointment; no new friends are made. All patronage is perilous to men of real ability or merit. It aids only those who lack other claims to public support.
 Rutherford B. Hayes
Abolish plutocracy if you would abolish poverty. As millionaires increase, pauperism grows. The more millionaires, the more paupers.
 Rutherford B. Hayes
I prefer to make no new declarations [on southern policy beyond what was in the Letter of Acceptance]. But you may say, if you deem it advisable, that you know that I will stand by the friendly and encouraging words of that Letter, and by all that they imply. You cannot express that too strongly.
 Rutherford B. Hayes