Best James A. Garfield Quotes
- Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. Feet
- History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. Chronology
- A law is not a law without coercion behind it.... Behind
- I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. Everything Else
- Justice and goodwill will outlast passion. Goodwill
- The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. Blood
- Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. Been
- Suicide is not a remedy Inspirational
- When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. Better
- The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. College
- 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… Abuse
- The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. Actors
- If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. Funny
- The divorce between church and state should be absolute. Absolute
- [I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States… Any
- 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… Accomplish
- I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. Agitation
- 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… Acts
- Right reason is stronger than force. Force
- Tortured for the Republic. Inspirational
- Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. All
- Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory. Defined
- The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show Ability
- The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus… Accomplished
- The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all.… Administration
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