3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
3 December 2020 James A. Garfield Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.