Author: James A. Garfield

Quotes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

- 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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

- James A. Garfield

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