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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it. — James A. Garfield

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. — James A. Garfield

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. — James A. Garfield

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home. — James A. Garfield

We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct. — James A. Garfield

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. — James A. Garfield

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. — James A. Garfield

I am a poor hater. — James A. Garfield

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan. — James A. Garfield

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them. — James A. Garfield

The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show — James A. Garfield

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. — James A. Garfield

There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. — James A. Garfield

Tortured for the Republic. — James A. Garfield

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. — James A. Garfield

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. — James A. Garfield

Ideas control the world. — James A. Garfield

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. — James A. Garfield

Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening. — James A. Garfield

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. — James A. Garfield

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. — James A. Garfield

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. — James A. Garfield

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. — James A. Garfield

I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme. — James A. Garfield

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves. — James A. Garfield

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. — James A. Garfield

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. — James A. Garfield

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield

My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it? — James A. Garfield

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil. — James A. Garfield

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. — James A. Garfield

Suicide is not a remedy. — James A. Garfield

It is a brave man ... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. — James A. Garfield

A law is not a law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. — James A. Garfield

The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. — James A. Garfield President Of The United States

But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare ... are to be found portrayed in it. — James A. Garfield

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics. — James A. Garfield

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character. — James A. Garfield

Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,
human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress. — James A. Garfield

True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility. — James A. Garfield

No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech. — James A. Garfield

Right reason is stronger than force. — James A. Garfield

Emember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. — James A. Garfield

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. — James A. Garfield

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives! — James A. Garfield

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. — James A. Garfield

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions. — James A. Garfield

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. — James A. Garfield

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. — James A. Garfield

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands. — James A. Garfield

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. — James A. Garfield

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. — James A. Garfield

We should do nothing for revenge, but everything for security: nothing for the past; everything for the present and the future. — James A. Garfield

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. — James A. Garfield

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. — James A. Garfield President Of The United States

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. — James A. Garfield

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. — James A. Garfield

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. — James A. Garfield

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. — James A. Garfield

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. — James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. — James A. Garfield

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing. — James A. Garfield

I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table. — James A. Garfield

The return to solid values is always hard ... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values. — James A. Garfield

I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men. — James A. Garfield

For the love of country they accepted death. — James A. Garfield

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. — James A. Garfield

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. — James A. Garfield

If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old. — James A. Garfield

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. — James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. — James A. Garfield

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. — James A. Garfield