James A. Garfield

Quotes

• “Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is t...”
• “I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities m...”
• “Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permane...”
• “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 s...”
• “If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.”
• “All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.”
• “The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.”
• “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
• “He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.”
• “Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
• “Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.”
• “A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
• “Ideas control the world.”