Quote: Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed. [James Garfield]
Quote: Ideas control the world. [James Garfield]
Quote: A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. [James Garfield]
Quote: Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim. [James Garfield]
Quote: I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. [James Garfield]
Quote: I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came. [James Garfield]
Quote: If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. [James Garfield]
Quote: Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter. [James Garfield]
Quote: 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 Garfield]
Quote: Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. [James Garfield]
Quote: The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. [James Garfield]
Quote: Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. [James Garfield]
Quote: He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. [James Garfield]
Quote: If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. [James Garfield]
Quote: The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. [James Garfield]
Quote: Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. [James Garfield]
Quote: All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. [James Garfield]
Quote: If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. [James Garfield]
Quote: (The President) is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. [James Garfield]
Quote: My definition of a University is Mark Hopkins at one end of a log
and a student on the other. [James Garfield]
Quote: Tortured for the Republic.
[Lat., Strangulatus pro republica.] [James Garfield]
Quote: If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. [James Garfield]
Quote: If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, -- it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. [James Garfield]
Quote: If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. [James Garfield]
Quote: Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. [James Garfield]