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
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.
Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.
Suicide is not a remedy
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
A law is not a law without coercion behind it....
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.
No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.