The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. — 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
