James A. Garfield Quotes

American - President | November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

James A. Garfield

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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

James A. Garfield

ServiceLawNeverCivilUntilBasis

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

James A. Garfield

LawWithoutBehindCoercion

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

James A. Garfield

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I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

James A. Garfield

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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

James A. Garfield

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Ideas control the world.

James A. Garfield

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Right reason is stronger than force.

James A. Garfield

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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

James A. Garfield

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