James Garfield quotes

1831–1881 · Moreland Hills, OH

• …now, more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption.

• There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

• Freedom can never yield its fulness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

• It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors, and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.

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