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

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

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word.…

— 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

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the…

— James A. Garfield

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

— James A. Garfield

Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that…

— James A. Garfield

“Jika kerut merut mesti tertera di dahi kita, biarlah mereka tidak tertera di hati kita. Jiwa kita jangan pernah menjadi tua.”

— James A. Garfield

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

— 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

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt,…

— James A. Garfield

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

— 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

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death.…

— 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

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

— 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

A law is not a law without coercion behind it....

— James A. Garfield

The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.

— 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

[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

— James A. Garfield

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

— James A. Garfield

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but…

— James A. Garfield

[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or…

— James A. Garfield

In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every…

— James A. Garfield