Quotes by James A. Garfield

James A. Garfield

President of the USA

Lived from: 1831 - 1881

Born: 19 november 1831 Died: 19 september 1881

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

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• Ideas control the world.

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• A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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• I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.

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• I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

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• If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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• If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

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• Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

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• Poverty is uncomfortable; but 9 times out of 10 the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and be compelled to sink or swim.

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

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Subjects in these quotes:

• rigidification
• uncomfortable
• substitute
• stupidity
• doctrines
• overboard

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