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James A. Garfield Quotes

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

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

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor ju...

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Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...

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

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 ...

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Ideas control the world.

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

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

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

Nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and co...

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

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James A. Garfield

U.S. President

Born: 1831-11-19

Died: 1881-09-19

James Abram Garfield (19 November 1831 – 19 September 1881) was the 20th president of the United States of America in 1881, and the second U.S. president to be assassinated. His term was the second shortest in U.S. history, after William Henry Harrison's. Holding office from March to September of 1881, President Garfield was in office for a total of just six months and fifteen days. A Republican, he supported civil rights and freedoms for African Americans.More