Quotes from James A. Garfield


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    I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

    Love | Men | Events


    He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

    Money | Controls | Nation


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

    Peace | Government | Sunshine


    If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

    Best | Work | Power


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

    Fool | Small | Matter


    There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

    Permanent | United | States


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

    Turn | Somebody | Turns


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

    College | Student | Mark


    I am a poor hater.

    Poor | Hater


    The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

    Service | Law | Basis


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

    Wisdom | Free | Folly


    Right reason is stronger than force.

    Stronger | Reason | Force


    I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

    Succeed | Shall


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

    Small | Large | Occupy


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

    Great | Nobody | Crisis


    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.

    Best | Poverty | Happen


    A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

    Law | Behind | Coercion


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

    Truth | Free | Miserable


    Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

    History | Men | Planning


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

    Life | Worst | Troubles


       

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