James A. Garfield

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

Right reason is stronger than force.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

It ain't often that a man's reputation outlasts his money.

With all the goodwill and local initiative in the world, we are not about to rewild anything until we change our way of thinking about our place in the creaturely world.