Quotes by James A. Garfield

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 dont turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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.

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.

Ideas control the world.

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.