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
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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.
The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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.
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.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.