Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - James A. Garfield
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. - James A. Garfield
Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you!Garfield: Feed me. - Jim Davis
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. - James A. Garfield President of the United States
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. - James A. Garfield
I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. - James A. Garfield
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. - James A. Garfield
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. - James A. Garfield
Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care". - Jefferson Davis