James Garfield Quotes - The 20th President of the United States
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.
James Garfield Quotes:
James Garfield Quotes
1. There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it.
― James A. Garfield
2. I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular
error.
― James A. Garfield
3. Assassination can be not more guarded against than deathy by lightning; and it is best not to worry about either.
― James A. Garfield
4. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
― James A. Garfield
5. It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
― James A. Garfield
6. The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
― James A. Garfield
7. I am an advocate of paper money, but that paper must represent what it professes on its face.
I do not wish to hold in my hands the printed lies of the government.
― James A. Garfield
8. Right reason is stronger than force.
― James A. Garfield
9. All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
― James A. Garfield
10. 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
11. We may divide the whole struggle of the human race into two chapter: first, the fight to get leisure; and then the second fight of civilization - what shall we do with our leisure when we get it.
― James A. Garfield
12. I am a poor hater.
― James A. Garfield
13. I so despise a man who blows his own horn, that I go to the other extreme.
― James A. Garfield
14. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
― James A. Garfield
15. If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
― James A. Garfield
16. Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
― James A. Garfield
17. If wrinkles must be written on our brow, let them not be written on our heart. The spirit should not grow old.
― James A. Garfield
18. I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
― James A. Garfield
19. Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
― James A. Garfield
20. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
― James A. Garfield
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