The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. GarfieldIt is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
James A. GarfieldOf course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
James A. GarfieldWhatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
James A. Garfield