More from James A. Garfield
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
If any theories or opinions of mine can be damaged by facts, so much the worse for my theories.
Commissioner Wells’s Report. Remarks made in the House of Representatives, January 1869. Quoted inAll free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
Letter to B. A. Hinsdale, (21 April 1880), in The Nation’s Hero — In Memoriam : The Life of James Abram Garfield (1881) by J. M. Bundy, p. 216
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John L. O'Sullivan1813–1895Often credited to Thomas PaineDemocracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
?UnattributedOften credited to Benjamin FranklinThe best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill