I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. — James A. Garfield
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality. — James A. Garfield
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. — 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 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 president is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. — James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. — James A. Garfield
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty. — James A. Garfield