Quotes from James A. Garfield
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
- James A. Garfield
But for we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare... are to be found portrayed in it.
- James A. Garfield
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 disturbing the business of the country.
- 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
True art is but the anti-type of nature; the embodiment of discovered beauty in utility.
- 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
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
- James A. Garfield
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
- 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 the poorest may hope to reach it.
- James A. Garfield
When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
- James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- James A. Garfield
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 makes the speech.
- James A. Garfield