James A. Garfield
Quotes by James A. Garfield
Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.
— 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
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
— James A. Garfield
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
— James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
— James A. Garfield
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
— 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 truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
— 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
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
— James A. Garfield