The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Jika kerut merut mesti tertera di dahi kita, biarlah mereka tidak tertera di hati kita. Jiwa kita jangan pernah menjadi tua.” — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
