James A. Garfield Quotes - Famous Quotes by James A. Garfield
Born: 1831-11-19
Died: 1881-09-19
James A. Garfield Biography
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- James A. Garfield
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
- James A. Garfield
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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
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
- James A. Garfield
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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
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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
- James A. Garfield
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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
- James A. Garfield
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- James A. Garfield
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