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By James Garfield
…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.
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- A Century of Congress, July 1877 · p. 486
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- Internet Archive (scan of The Works of James Abram Garfield, vol. II, ed. Burke A. Hinsdale, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, the original edition)
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From James A. Garfield's essay "A Century of Congress," first printed in the Atlantic Monthly, July 1877. He was a member of the House at the time. The text is from the 1883 edition of his collected works. The sentence begins mid-way ("And this leads me to say that now, ...").