James A. Garfield - The truth will set you free

• "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
• "The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
• "The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
• "The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."
• "The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission."
• "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."

                                                                                                                                                                                           James A. Garfield