Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

- James A. Garfield

There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or …

- James A. Garfield

It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritanc…

- James A. Garfield

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

- James A. Garfield

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

- James A. Garfield

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

- James A. Garfield

I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

- James A. Garfield

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

- James A. Garfield

Men are tending to materialism. Houses, lands, and worldly goods attract their attention, and as a mirage lure them on to death. Christianity, on the…

- James A. Garfield