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
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.
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine and pestilence, ignorance and crime, disease and death.
For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.