Quotes from James A. Garfield
It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
- James A. Garfield
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
- James A. Garfield
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
- James A. Garfield
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
- James A. Garfield
For love of country, they accepted death.
- James A. Garfield
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 experiment of self-government.
- James A. Garfield
I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
- James A. Garfield
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
- James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
- James A. Garfield
Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.
- James A. Garfield
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- James A. Garfield
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
- James A. Garfield