Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that we can control terrestrial forces only by obeying their laws. The legislator must formulate in his statutes not only the national will, but also those great laws of social life revealed by statistics.
The works of James Abram Garfield. Volume 1: (ed. Best Books on, 1882) - ISBN: 9781623765774