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.
James A. Garfield

Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield

Suicide is not a remedy.
James A. Garfield

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
James A. Garfield

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield

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

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield

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

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
James A. Garfield

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

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield

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