James A. Garfield is largely forgotten today because he was shot only one hundred days into his presidency and died roughly a hundred days later. If the statements that survive him are any indication, though, he might have been a very good president:
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Posted from Mentor, Ohio
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