Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
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
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
Never
Conflict
Paid
Battle
Cost
Dead
War
Ends
Battles
Must
Buried
More quotes by James A. Garfield
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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
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
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield
I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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 believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
James A. Garfield
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
James A. Garfield
Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
James A. Garfield
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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
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
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
Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
