James Garfield

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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, but the worst of them never came.

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

Ideas control the world.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

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.

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.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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.