I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
James A. GarfieldYou and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
James A. GarfieldA brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
James A. GarfieldIndividuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
James A. Garfield