James A. Garfield Quote

All 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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