Top 33 Quotes by James A. Garfield

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.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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.

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

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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Suicide is not a remedy.

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