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Great Quotes by James A. Garfield
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
- 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…
- 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…
- The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
- For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would…
- Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only…
- Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
- Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
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