Top 16 James A. Garfield Quotes



I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

 

It is a brave man… who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

 

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

 

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

 

Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: 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 for himself.

 

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

 

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

 

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

 

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

 

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

 

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

 

 

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