Quotes of James A. Garfield - somelinesforyou

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

- James A. Garfield

“ A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. 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 upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ I am a poor hater. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ 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

“ Right reason is stronger than force. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Right reason is stronger than force. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, — it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Ideas control the world. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ The scientific spirit has cast out the demons, and presented us with nature clothed in her right mind and living under the reign of law. It has given us, for the sorceries of the alchemist, the beautiful laws of chemistry; for the dreams of the astrologer, the sublime truths of astronomy; for the wild visions of cosmogony, the monumental records of geology; for the anarchy of diabolism, the laws of God. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Ideas control the world. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ 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

“ I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ 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

“ 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

“ Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify: 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 for himself. ”

- James A. Garfield

“ 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
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