Quotes from James A. Garfield

Swaim, can't you stop the pain?

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.