James A. Garfield Quotes


Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.


Citations

Garfield, James A. The Works of James Abram Garfield. Edited by Burke A. Hinsdale, vol. 2, James R. Osgood and Company, 1883, p. 143.

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James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield
  • Born: November 19, 1831
  • Died: September 19, 1881
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: President

James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March to September 1881. Garfield was shot by an assassin four months into his presidency and died two months later. He is the only sitting member of the United States House of Representatives to be elected to the presidency.