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
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning; it is best not to worry about either.
Right reason is stronger than force.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.