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.
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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.
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
Tortured for the Republic.
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a comtempt for mere external show
The refunding of the national debt at a lower rate of interest should be accomplished without compelling the withdrawal of the national-bank notes, and thus disturbing the business of the country.
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.
It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.