James A. Garfield Quotes

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield

Truth, Free, Miserable

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

Him, Brave, Tell

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
James A. Garfield

Money, Nation, Controls

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

Heart, Old, Spirit

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
James A. Garfield

Alone, Live, Cannot

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield

Law, Service, Until

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield

Person, Last, President

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

Best, Happen, Young

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

Peace, Government, Sunshine

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
James A. Garfield

Great, Crisis, Nobody

I am a poor hater.
James A. Garfield

Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield

Wisdom, Free, Folly

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

Fool, Trying, Two

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield

Work, Power, Best

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

Life, Soul, Nation

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield

Law, Behind, Coercion

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield

Life, Worst, Troubles

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield

Mean, Else, Succeed

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

Great, War, Idea

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield

Justice, Passion, Goodwill

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield

Education, Freedom, Justice

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield

Money, Country, Industry

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield

Worth, Luck, Pluck

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield

Men, History, Few

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: President

Born: November 19, 1831

Died: September 19, 1881

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