I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. – James A. Garfield
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. – 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
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. – James A. Garfield
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law. – James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. – James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. – James A. Garfield
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. – 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
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. – James A. Garfield
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. – James A. Garfield
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. – 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. – James A. Garfield
