Quotes by James Garfield

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