Quote #6
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
More from James A. Garfield
- The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
- I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
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- Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
- I am a poor hater.
- Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.