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
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. – James Garfield
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came. – James Garfield
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. – James Garfield
Love your country. Your country is the land where your parents sleep, where is spoken that language in which the chosen of your heart, blushing, whispered the first word of love; it is the home that God has given you that by striving to perfect yourselves therein you may prepare to ascend to him. – Giuseppe Mazzini