Quotes By 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
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
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
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
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
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
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
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
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield