James A. Garfield Quotes
"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: People, President, Want, World)
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Devil, Man)
"A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Law)
"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Luck, Worth)
"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Blood, May, Sin, Slavery)
"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
- James A. Garfield
"If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Heart, Old, Spirit)
"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Power, Work, Hard work, Skill)
"Ideas control the world."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Ideas, Control, World)
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: War, Idea, Ideas, World)
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Man, Succeed)
"I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Love, Men, Events)
"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Goodwill, Justice, Passion)
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Life)
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Difficulty, Fool, Radical, Trying)
"I am a poor hater."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Poor)
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Money, Nation)
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: History, Men, Planning, Presidency)
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Government, Peace, People, Duty)
"Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Man, Poverty)
"There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: states, United)
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Truth, First, Will)
"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Man)
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Crisis)
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Wisdom, People, Folly)
"Right reason is stronger than force."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Force, Reason, Right)
"Suicide is not a remedy."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Suicide)
"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Law, Service)
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Life, Soul, People, Body, Nation, Spirit)
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: College, End)
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: World)
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
- James A. Garfield
(Related: Education, Freedom, Importance, Justice, Popular)