James A. Garfield War Quotations

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.

Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.

It would convert the Treasury of the United States into a manufactory of paper money. It makes the House of Representatives and the Senate, or the caucus of the party which happens to be in the majority, the absolute dictator of the financial and business affairs of this country. This scheme surpasses all the centralism and all the Caesarism that were ever charged upon the Republican party in the wildest days of the war or in the events growing out of the war.