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James A. Garfield Quotes (116 quotes)
 | Source/Notes: Speech in the House of Representatives, June, 1874, in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 437 |
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| “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: Letter to Colonel A. F. Rockwell (13 August 1866) |
| “I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not be a fool, which, if I may judge by the exhibitions around me, is a matter of no small difficulty.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: In a letter to Burke Aaron Hinsdale (1 January 1867); quoted in The Life of Gen. James A. Garfield (1880) by Jonas Mills Bundy, p. 77 |
| “Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: Elements of Success, in President Garfield and Education : Hiram College Memorial (1881) by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 327 |
| “Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim for himself.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: Elements of Success President Garfield and Education : Hiram College Memorial (1881) by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 331 |
| Source/Notes: Letter to Professor Demmon (16 December 1871), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 424 |
| “It is not part of the functions of the national government to find employment for people — and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for this purpose, we should be taxing forty millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: To B. A. Hinsdale in 1874, as quoted in The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877 (1925) by Theodore Clarke Smith, p. 517 |
| Source/Notes: To H. Austin (4 February 1874) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 17 |
| “The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.” ―James A. Garfield Source/Notes: Speech (22 June 1874) US Congressional Record, 43rd Congress, 2nd session |
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James A. Garfield
Born: November 19, 1831
Died: September 19, 1881 (aged 49)
Nationality: American
Occupation: President
Bio: James Abram Garfield served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine consecutive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the Post Office Department.
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