James A. Garfield Quotes

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

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There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

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I am a poor hater.

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Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

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

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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

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Right reason is stronger than force.

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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.

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

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

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

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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

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Suicide is not a remedy.

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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

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I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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

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

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

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If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.

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Ideas control the world.

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A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins president of Williams College on the other.

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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

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