James A. Garfield Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old James A. Garfield quotes, James A. Garfield sayings, and James A. Garfield proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. James A. Garfield
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. James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. James A. Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield
Suicide is not a remedy. James A. Garfield
We do not know one promise these men made, one pledge they gave, one word they spoke; but we do know they summed up and perfected, by one supreme act, the highest virtues of men and citizens. For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made. James A. Garfield
For love of country, they accepted death. James A. Garfield
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. James A. Garfield
History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy. James A. Garfield
Men cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. James A. Garfield
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. James A. Garfield
Monuments may be builded to express the affection or pride of friends, or to display their wealth, but they are only valuable for the characters which they perpetuate. James A. Garfield
Man can not live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter. James A. Garfield
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. James A. Garfield
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. James A. Garfield
For love of country they accepted death. James A. Garfield
For mere vengeance, I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for the security of the future, I would do everything. James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. James A. Garfield