145 Quotes by James A. Garfield

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Tortured for the Republic.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'

[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

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

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.