James A. Garfield

James Abram Garfield (19 November 1831 – 19 September 1881) was the 20th President of the United States (1881), and the second U.S. President to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days.

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

James A. Garfield

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

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

Ideas control the world.

James A. Garfield

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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

James A. Garfield

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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

Ideas control the world.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Right reason is stronger than force.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

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

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

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.