Quote #12
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
More from James A. Garfield
- Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?
- Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
- I am a poor hater.
- Strangulatus pro republica.
- The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
- Garfield: 'Old boy! Do you think my name will have a place in human history?' Rockwell: 'Yes, a grand one, but a grander one in human heart…