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  • James A. Garfield"A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
  • "A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
  • "A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."
  • "All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people."
  • "Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
  • "He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation."
  • "I am a poor hater."
  • "I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty."
  • "I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came."
  • "I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came."
  • "I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike."
  • "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."
  • "Ideas control the world."
  • "If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it."
  • "If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old."
  • "If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it."]
  • "Justice and goodwill will outlast passion."
  • "Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter."
  • "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained."
  • "Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis."
  • "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."
  • "Right reason is stronger than force."
  • "Suicide is not a remedy."
  • "Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life."
  • "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."
  • "The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law."
  • "The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other."
  • "The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think."
  • "The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission."
  • "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable."
  • "There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States."
  • "Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up."
  • "Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce."


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