The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. GarfieldTalleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
James A. GarfieldLight 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