All James A. Garfield Quotes
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
James A. Garfield
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There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield
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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.
James A. Garfield
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
James A. Garfield
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The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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.
James A. Garfield
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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
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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.
James A. Garfield
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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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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
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
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