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.

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

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

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.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

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

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the other hand leads only the natural body to death, and for the spirit, it points out a house not built with hands, eternal in the heavens… Let me urge you to follow Him, not as the Nazarene, the Man of Galilee, the carpenter’s son, but as the ever living spiritual person, full of love and compassion, who will stand by you in life and death and eternity.

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 wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.