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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
James A. Garfield
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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.
James A. Garfield
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
The truth will set you free - but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
I am inclined to believe that the sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. 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.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
James A. Garfield
I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
James A. Garfield
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
The lesson of History is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
James A. Garfield
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