"Whosoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
Conforme citado em "The Money Masters" (1995), documentário produzido por produced Patrick S. J. Carmack
James A. Garfield Frases famosas
“O principal dever do governo é manter a ordem e projetar a luz do sol das pessoas.”
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
Para HN Eldridge (14 de dezembro de 1869), conforme citado em Garfiel (1978) por Allen Peskin, Cap. 13
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
Diário (14 de março de 1881)
James A. Garfield: Frases em inglês
“The truth will set you free — but first it will make you miserable.”
Attributed without citation to Mark Twain as well as Garfield in recent years, this may have arisen sometime in the 1970s. The earliest discovered citation is a poster in a residential treatment program for alcoholics in Syracuse, New York, [ http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/09/04/truth-free/ described in a 1978 newspaper article]. Another early publication is is found in Pinochet's Chile : An Eyewitness Report, 1980/81 (1981) by Morna Macleod, p. 5
Misattributed
1870s, An Appeal to Young Men (1879)
1880s, Inaugural address (1881)
1880s, Inaugural address (1881)
“I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 595
1870s, Speech in the House of Representatives (1871)
1880s, Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
To B. A. Hinsdale in 1874, as quoted in The Life and Letters of James Abram Garfield: 1831-1877 (1925) by Theodore Clarke Smith, p. 517
1870s
1860s, Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (1865)
1870s, An Appeal to Young Men (1879)
Commenting on a resolution offered by James Weaver of the Greenback Party that the government should issue all money, on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives (5 April 1880), published in Financial Catechism and History of the Financial Legislation of the United States from 1862-1896 (1882) by S. M. Brice, p. 223 http://books.google.com/books?id=u-goAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223 (Cong. Record, 10:2140)
1880s
1860s, Oration at Ravenna, Ohio (1865)
Contexto: In the great crisis of the war, God brought us face to face with the mighty truth, that we must lose our own freedom or grant it to the slave. In the extremity of our distress, we called upon the black man to help us save the Republic; and, amid the very thunders of battle, we made a covenant with him, sealed both with his blood and with ours, and witnessed by Jehovah, that, when the nation was redeemed, he should be free, and share with us its glories and its blessings. The Omniscient Witness will appear in judgment against us if we do not fulfill that covenant. Have we done it? Have we given freedom to the black man? What is freedom? Is it mere negation? Is it the bare privilege of not being chained, of not being bought and sold, branded and scourged? If this is all, then freedom is a bitter mockery, a cruel delusion, and it may well be questioned whether slavery were not better. But liberty is no negation. It is a substantial, tangible reality. It is the realization of those imperishable truths of the Declaration, 'that all men are created equal'; that the sanction of all just government is 'the consent of the governed.' Can these be realized until each man has a right to be heard on all matters relating to himself? The plain truth is, that each man knows his own interest best It has been said, 'If he is compelled to pay, if he may be compelled to fight, if he be required implicitly to obey, he should be legally entitled to be told what for; to have his consent asked, and his opinion counted at what it is worth. There ought to be no pariahs in a full-grown and civilized nation, no persons disqualified except through their own default.' I would not insult your intelligence by discussing so plain a truth, had not the passion and prejudice of this generation called in question the very axioms of the Declaration.
“The possession of great powers, no doubt, carries with it a contempt for mere external show.”
“Life and Character of Almeda A. Booth”, Memorial address at Hiram College, (22 June 1876), in President Garfield and Education : Hiram College Memorial (1881) by B. A. Hinsdale, p. 420 http://books.google.com/books?id=rA4XAAAAYAAJ
1870s
Letter accepting the Republican nomination to run for President (12 July 1880)
1880s
Variante: Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
1880s, Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
“I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.”
To H. Austin (4 February 1874) as quoted in Garfield (1978) by Allen Peskin, Ch. 17
1870s
“The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.”
Letter to Professor Demmon (16 December 1871), in The Life and Public Services of James A. Garfield (1881) by E. E. Brown, p. 424 http://books.google.com/books?id=vCAFAAAAYAAJ
1870s
1880s, Inaugural address (1881)
1880s, Garfield's Words (1882)
Letter to Colonel A. F. Rockwell (13 August 1866)
1860s
1880s, Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
This quote was already published in 1853 http://books.google.com/books?id=LM0QVhkWKrcC&pg=PA129&dq=%22two+eyes+are+geography+and+chronology.%22#v=onepage&q=%22two%20eyes%20are%20geography%20and%20chronology.%22&f=false, when Garfield was only 22.
Misattributed
1880s, Speech Nominating John Sherman for President (1880)
“There never can be a convention… that shall bind my vote against my will on any question whatever.”
Speech at the 1880 Republican National Convention http://fairfaxfreecitizen.com/2015/07/02/22640/
1880s
This politically motivated misattribution was contained in a forged letter circulated during the 1880 presidential campaign. Reported in Paul F. Boller, John George, They Never Said It: A Book of Fake Quotes, Misquotes, and Misleading Attributions (1990), p. 31
Misattributed