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James A. Garfield Quotes


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.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Suicide is not a remedy.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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