James A. Garfield

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.