14 Quotes By James A. Garfield


Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.
James A. Garfield on alone

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 on best

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield on education

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield on freedom

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

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield on history

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
James A. Garfield on money

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

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield on power

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield on truth

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield on war

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield on wisdom

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 on age

(The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield on politics