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James A. Garfield [1831-1881] American

Rank: 101
President, 20th U.S. President

James Abram Garfield was the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year.

Alone, Chance, Education, Freedom, Funny, History, Imagination, Peace, Truth, War, Wisdom

Quote	Tags	Rank
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.	Alone, Funny	101
Ideas control the world.	Imagination	102
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.	Truth	103
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.	Chance	104
Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.		105
Suicide is not a remedy.		106
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.		107
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.		108
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.		109
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.	Education, Freedom	110
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.		111
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.	War	112
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.		113
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.		114
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.		115
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.	History	116
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.		117
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.		118
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.		119
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.		120
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.		121
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.		122
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.	Peace	123
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.		124
I am a poor hater.		125
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.		126
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.		201
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.	Wisdom	202
Right reason is stronger than force.		203
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.		204
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.		205
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.		206
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.		207

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