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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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
Lawyer
Military Officer
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James Abram Garfield
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More quotes by James A. Garfield
If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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
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
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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
At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
Right reason is stronger than force.
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
For love of country, they accepted death.
James A. Garfield
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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 times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
James A. Garfield
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
James A. Garfield
