Famous James Garfield Quotations

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"The possession of great powers no doubt carries with it a contempt for mere external show."
by James A. Garfield
"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
by James Garfield
"A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
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."
by James A. Garfield
"All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
by James Abram Garfield
"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
by James A. Garfield
"Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."
by James A. Garfield
"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology."
by James A. Garfield
"History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology."
by James A. Garfield
"Ideas control the world."
by James Abram Garfield
"If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
by James Abram Garfield
"Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
by James A. Garfield
"Now more than ever before, the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness and corruption"
by James 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."
by James A. Garfield
"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think"
by James Garfield
"Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed."
by James Garfield
"Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim."
by James Garfield
"If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
by James Garfield
"I am not willing that this discussion should close without mention of the value of a true teacher. Give me a log hut, with only a simple bench, Mark Hopkins on one end and I on the other, and you may have all the buildings, apparatus and libraries without him."
by James Garfield
"I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table."
by James A. Garfield
"The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
by James A. Garfield


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