History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
James A. GarfieldGreat ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.
James A. GarfieldMonuments 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[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.
James A. Garfield