James A. Garfield

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

Ideas control the world.

Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.

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

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

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.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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

Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: 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 for himself.

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.