Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
James A. Garfield
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
Politics
Whatever
May
Believe
Vicarious
Atonement
Theology
Doctrine
More quotes by 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 am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
James A. Garfield
Poverty is uncomfortable 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.
James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. Garfield
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
James A. Garfield
You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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
History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
James A. Garfield
A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
James A. Garfield
I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
James A. Garfield
Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated 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
