James A. Garfield Quotes

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

  James A. Garfield

  Ignorance, Character, Intelligent

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• The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

  James A. Garfield

  Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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• Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

  James A. Garfield

  Inspirational, Ignorance, Character

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.486, Best Books on

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• 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

  Country, Money, Powerful

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• There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.

  James A. Garfield

  Loyalty, Running, Kindness

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• A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

  James A. Garfield

  Men, Bravery, Devil

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• I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

  James A. Garfield

  Errors, Agitation, Politics

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• Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens... Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter's son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

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  Spiritual, Son, Men

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• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

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  Education, Teacher, Teaching

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.783, Best Books on

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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  Work, Skills, Presidential

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• I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

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  Tables, Vote, Multiplication

  Letter to H. Austin on February 04, 1874. "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allan Peskin. Chapter 17, 1978.

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• I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

  James A. Garfield

  Trust, Believe, Hands

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 595, 1895.

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• Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

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  Reality, Liberty, Tangible

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1”, p.108, Best Books on

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• It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people - and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.

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  Government, People, Employment

  "The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877". Book by Theodore Clarke Smith, 1925.

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• If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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  Love, Life, Motivational

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• Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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  Inspirational, Effort, World

  "The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield: Together with Notable Extracts from His Speeches and Letters". Book by E. E. Brown, 1881.

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• I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

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  Success, Believe, Personality

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• The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

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  Sunshine, Government, People

  "Garfield: A Biography". Book by Allen Peskin, 1978.

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• Right reason is stronger than force.

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  Stronger, Reason, Force

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• The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

  James A. Garfield

  Divorce, Organization, Community

  Remark during Congressional debate. "Congressional Record", 43rd Congress, 1st Session, p. 5384, memory.loc.gov. June 22, 1874.

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• He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

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  Money, Nations

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• 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.

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  Inheritance, Sacred, Privilege

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. (2 Volumes) Volume 2”, p.792, Best Books on

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• 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.

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  Integrity, Men, Brave

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• 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

  Swimming, Men, Nine

  "Elements of Success". "President Garfield and education. Hiram college memorial". Book compiled by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331, 1882.

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• 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

  War, Battle, Cost

  Garfield, James A. (1882). “The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2”, p.610, Best Books on

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