Quotes by James A. Garfield

“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.”

“Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”

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

“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.”

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”

“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 don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”

“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.”

“I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man; but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea, from which ...”

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

“If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”

“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.”