Quotes by James A. Garfield

“If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.”

“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, its the best possible substitute for it.”

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

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

“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”

“Ideas control the world.”

“The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.”

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

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

“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.”

“If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.”

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

“Fellow-citizens: God reigns, and the Government at Washington lives!”

“Suicide is not a remedy.”

“Right reason is stronger than force.”

“A law is not a law without coercion behind it.”

“A university is a student on one end of a pine log and Mark Hopkins [president of Williams College ] on the other.”

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.