Author: James A. Garfield

Quotes

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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