Source: Inaugural Speeches from the Presidents of the United States - Complete Edition
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Famous James A. Garfield Quotes
“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1
“The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”
“The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
“If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 2
Source: The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1