James A. Garfield Quotes

Tom Clarke is dead. He has not our responsibilities. Nobody will ever know what he would do for the situation did not arise for him. But is has risen for us and we must face it with our intelligence and conscious of our responsibility.

I always thought, 'Will I go into the business, or will I not go into the business?' But when my father got arrested, I really didn't have a choice. I was the oldest son, and it was something that had to be done.

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.

Intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education.

Although children are good and well born, vice will blight them if they are not well educated.

Responsibility educates.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.

Our children's children will hear a good story.

We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

If there were some recipe that would make all of our children really sane and civic-minded and hugely intelligent, I think we'd probably all do it. But I don't know that there is a recipe for creating that.

Civic education and civic responsibility should be taught in elementary school.

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.

The great aim of our education is to bring out of the child who comes into our hands every faculty that he brings with him, and then to try to win that child to turn all his abilities, his powers, his capacities, to the helping and serving of the community which is a part.

All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth.

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

The child becomes largely what it is taught; hence we must watch what we teach it, and how we live before it.

If we do not prepare children to be good citizens; if we do not develop their capacities, if we do not enrich their minds with knowledge, imbue their hearts with love of truth and duty, and a reverence for all things sacred and holy, then our republic must go down to destruction as others have gone before it.

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate.

This younger generation is paying in many cases, for the sins of its elders.

A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district ... are the principle support of virtue, morality and civil liberty.

The fundamental purpose of schools is to grow adults.

Erudition - that is, reading, writing, and arithmetic - is taught in the schools; but where is the more important quality, character, taught? Nowhere in particular. There is no authorized training for children in character.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

If you have children, you worry about the world you're leaving them.