Top 33 Quotes by James A. Garfield

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

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

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

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

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.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

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

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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.