Quote #10
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
More from James A. Garfield
- I am a poor hater.
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
- I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
- I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
- My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?
- The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
- The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.