James A. Garfield Quotes

American - President | November 19, 1831 - September 19, 1881

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

James A. Garfield

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

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

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I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

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

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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

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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.

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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.

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

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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.

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