James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfieldwas the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the senatorship once he was president-elect. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth19 November 1831
CountryUnited States of America
James A. Garfield quotes about
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
Tortured for the Republic.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
The prosperity which now prevails is without parallel in our history. Fruitful seasons have done much to secure it, but they have not done all. The preservation of the public credit and the resumption of specie payments, so successfully attained by the Administration of my predecessors, have enabled our people to secure the blessings which the seasons brought.
Suicide is not a remedy
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.