James A. Garfield Quotes

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

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.

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.