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James A. Garfield
American
President
About the author
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Country
#Money
#Commerce
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Want
#People
#World
#President
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,
American
President
#Man
#Devil
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Law
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Worth
#Luck
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,
American
President
#May
#Sin
#Slavery
#Blood
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
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,
American
President
#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,
American
President
#Work
#Power
#Hard work
#Skill
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#World
#Ideas
#Control
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#World
#War
#Idea
#Ideas
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Man
#Succeed
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Love
#Men
#Events
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Passion
#Justice
#Goodwill
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#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,
American
President
#Trying
#Difficulty
#Fool
#Radical
I am a poor hater.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Poor
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Money
#Nation
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Men
#History
#Planning
#Presidency
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#People
#Peace
#Government
#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,
American
President
#Man
#Poverty
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#states
#United
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Will
#First
#Truth
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Man
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Crisis
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#People
#Wisdom
#Folly
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Right
#Reason
#Force
Suicide is not a remedy.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Suicide
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#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,
American
President
#Life
#People
#Spirit
#Soul
#Body
#Nation
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#End
#College
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#World
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield,
American
President
#Freedom
#Popular
#Education
#Justice
#Importance