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James A Garfield
A university is...
A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College ] on the...
Things don't turn...
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Source: In The...
Poverty is uncomfortable;...
Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed...
If the power...
If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possible substitute for it.
A pound of...
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
I mean to...
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
All free governments...
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
History is the...
History is the unrolled scroll of prophecy.
Source: In The Speaker's Electronic...
Suicide is not...
Suicide is not a remedy.
Source: Inaugural address, 4 Mar 1881.
-- James A...
If wrinkles must...
If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow...
[The President is]...
[The President is] the last person in the world to know what the people really want and...
I am trying...
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small...
Ideas are the...
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a...
I have had...
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
Source: In
Most human organizations...
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but...
Territory is but...
Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its...
Right reason is...
Right reason is stronger than force.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS, WordStar...
Ideas control the...
Ideas control the world.
Source: In
Man cannot live...
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
Source: From a...
A law is...
A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
Source: Attributed.
-- James A...