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James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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More quotes by James A. Garfield
The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
James A. Garfield
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.
James A. Garfield
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 do every thing.
James A. Garfield
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
James A. Garfield
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
James A. Garfield
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
James A. Garfield
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
For love of country, they accepted death.
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
Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
James A. Garfield
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
James A. Garfield
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
James A. Garfield
