James A. Garfield Quotes

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• Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
• They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
• Ideas control the world.
• Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
• For the love of country they accepted death.
• Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
• [Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
• I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has…
• If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the…
• Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime,…
• For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success…
• Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces…
• I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember…
• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because…
• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
• I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
• I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
• We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great…
• In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ...…

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