James Garfield Quotes
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![Ideas control the world. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/85/5085A-ideas-control-the-world-james-garfield.png)
Ideas control the world.
![All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/04/23304A-all-free-governments-are-managed-by-combined-wisdom-folly-people-james-garfield.png)
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
![Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/17/24517A-ideas-are-the-great-warriors-of-world-war-that-has-james-garfield.png)
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
![Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/28/8828A-territory-is-but-the-body-of-nation-people-who-inhabit-james-garfield.png)
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
![Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/54/22954A-next-in-importance-to-freedom-and-justice-is-popular-education-james-garfield.png)
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
![An Englishman who was wrecked on a strange shore and wandering along the coast came to a gallows with a victim hanging on it, and fell down on his knees and thanked God that he at last beheld a sign of civilization. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/53/21153A-an-englishman-who-was-wrecked-on-strange-shore-wandering-along-james-garfield.png)
An Englishman who was wrecked on a strange shore and wandering along the coast came to a gallows with a victim hanging on it, and fell down on his knees and thanked God that he at last beheld a sign of civilization.
![We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters: first, the fight to get leisure; and second, what to do with our leisure when we have won it. Like all blessings, leisure is a bad thing unless it is well used. - James Garfield quote.](/img/q/52/23552A-we-may-divide-the-struggles-of-human-race-into-two-james-garfield.png)
We may divide the struggles of the human race into two chapters: first, the fight to get leisure; and second, what to do with our leisure when we have won it. Like all blessings, leisure is a bad thing unless it is well used.