More from James A. Garfield

  1. The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
  2. Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
  3. I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.
  4. Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
  5. The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
  6. I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
  7. The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
  8. My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?

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