Quotes by James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield

..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship.

Race

Remember

Slavery

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[I]t would be unjust to our people and dangerous to our institutions to apply any portion of revenues of the nation or of the States to the support of sectarian schools.

People

School

Support

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[It is possible] that the race of red men … will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

Dream

Eye

Men

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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.

Character

Science

Stars

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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

Bravery

Devil

Men

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A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Coercion

Intriguing

Law

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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

Fate

Jewels

War

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A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.

Earth

Noble

Pride

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Good Luck

Humor

Inspirational

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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Diversity

Government

People

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