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.

God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!

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

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.

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

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

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

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.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.