I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured. James A. Garfield More Quotes by James A. Garfield More Quotes From James A. Garfield Real political issues cannot be manufactured by the leaders of political parties, and real ones cannot be evaded by political parties. The real political issues of the day declare themselves, and come out of the depths of that deep which we call public opinion. James A. Garfield issues party real ..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. James A. Garfield slavery race remember It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war. James A. Garfield party war country Suicide is not a remedy James A. Garfield remedy suicide Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics. James A. Garfield government law science I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.' James A. Garfield ignorance science years Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day. James A. Garfield abuse light darkness History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires. James A. Garfield century growth history You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us. James A. Garfield tears sweet life A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. James A. Garfield noble pride earth For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all. James A. Garfield inspirational-life honor men Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. James A. Garfield wool feet ideas I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men. James A. Garfield party mind men In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen, to prohibit within its jurisdiction all criminal practices ... Nor can any ecclesiastical organization be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the National Government. James A. Garfield government organization religious The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. James A. Garfield bases hippie law To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it. James A. Garfield powerful ambition mean Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid. James A. Garfield cost battle war Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt. James A. Garfield rocks power two When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose. James A. Garfield artist rose spring We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them. James A. Garfield forever giving past
