Quotes from James A. Garfield

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.

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

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.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.

Eternity alone can reveal to the human race its debt of gratitude to the peerless and immortal name of Washington.

Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.