James A. Garfield was a famous President from USA, who lived between November 19, 1831 and September 19, 1881. He/she became 49 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 31 quotes who is written / told by James.
31 Famous quotes by James A. Garfield
"The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people"
"If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it"
"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck"
"The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission"
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other"
"The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law"
"Justice and goodwill will outlast passion"
"A law is not a law without coercion behind it"
"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil"
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable"
"Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis"
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained"
"If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it"
"If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old"
"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality"
"I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty"
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it"
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people"
"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think"
"Suicide is not a remedy"
"I am a poor hater"
"Right reason is stronger than force"
"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"
"I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came"
"Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter"
"I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike"
"Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up"
"Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life"
"Ideas control the world"
"I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else"
"He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation"
