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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
James Garfield
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More quotes by James A. Garfield
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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
Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
James A. Garfield
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. Garfield
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
James A. Garfield
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
James A. Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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 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
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
James A. Garfield
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
