I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed
in everything else.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Best Thing
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
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Difficulty
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a
matter of no small difficulty.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Civil Service
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is
regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Education
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education,
without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently
maintained.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_A._Garfield/
Fit
Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know
that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than
you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy,
you are too small for it.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_A._Garfield/
Freedom
Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its
administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous
citizen…. Let all our people, leaving behind them the battlefields of dead
issues, move forward and in their strength of liberty and the restored
Union win the grander victories of peace.
James A. Garfield, Friday, 4 March 1881
Source:http://dreamhopereality.wordpress.com/2012/01/10
/quotations-for-tuesday-10-january-2012-james-a-garfield-grover-
cleveland-and-benjamin-harrison/
Free Governments
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Gold Standard
"The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the
country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained
whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money
legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the
necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon
its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder,
and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to
pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept."
James A. Garfield
Source: Inaugural Address, March 14, 1891
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Garfield.Quote.CBBF
History
History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its
two eyes are geography and chronology.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_A._Garfield/
Ideas
Ideas control the world.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Love
"I love agitation and investigation and glory
in defending unpopular truth against popular error."
James Garfield
(1831-1881) 20th President of the United States (1881)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/James.Garfield.Quote.3F97
Luck
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/James_A._Garfield/
Money
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master
of all industry and commerce.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Organizations
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. The President is the last person in the
world to know what the people really want and think.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
President
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really
want and think.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Skill
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible
substitute for it.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
Troubles
I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
James A. Garfield
Source:http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/james_a_garfield.html
