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A pound of pluck is worth a to...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James Garfield 144 quotes

Territory is but the body of a...

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

James Garfield 144 quotes

I am trying to do two things: ...

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 Garfield 144 quotes

The truth will set you free, b...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

A brave man is a man who dares...

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

James Garfield 144 quotes

He who controls the money supp...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

If wrinkles must be written on...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

Poverty is uncomfortable; but ...

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 Garfield 144 quotes

Ideas are the great warriors o...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

The civil service can never be...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

Nobody but radicals have ever ...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

If the power to do hard work i...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

Next in importance to freedom ...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

Whoever controls the volume of...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

Few men in our history have ev...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

I love to deal with doctrines ...

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

James Garfield 144 quotes

The world's history is a divin...

The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains have been pealing along down the centuries, and though there have been mingled the discords of warring cannon and dying men, yet to the Christian philosopher and historian - the humble listener - there has been a Divine melody running through the song which speaks of hope and halcyon days to come.

James Garfield 144 quotes

The people are responsible for...

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

James Garfield 144 quotes

Great ideas travel slowly, and...

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

James Garfield 144 quotes

History is philosophy teaching...

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

James Garfield 144 quotes

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