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Quotes from Garfield's Words — James A. Garfield

1831–1881 United States

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8 quotes

I am glad to have the opportunity of standing up against a rabble of men who hasten to make weathercocks of themselves.

Garfield's Words (1882)

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

Garfield's Words (1882)

It is not manly to lie even about Satan.

Garfield's Words (1882)

I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.

Garfield's Words (1882)

I would rather be defeated than make capital out of my religion.

Garfield's Words (1882)

If there be one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man — it is a man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Garfield's Words (1882)

The great Carlyle has said that the best gift God ever gave to man was an eye that could really see; I venture to add that an equally rare and not less important gift is the courage to tell what one sees.

Garfield's Words (1882)

I have always said that my whole public life was an experiment to determine whether an intelligent people would sustain a man in acting sensibly on each proposition that arose, and in doing nothing for mere show or demagogical effect.

Garfield's Words (1882)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James A. Garfield (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.