A law is not a law without coercion behind it.
- James A. Garfield Quote

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- James A. Garfield Quote

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
- James A. Garfield Quote

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
- James A. Garfield Quote

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
- James A. Garfield Quote

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 Quote

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
- James A. Garfield Quote

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
- James A. Garfield Quote

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
- James A. Garfield Quote

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

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
- James A. Garfield Quote

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
- James A. Garfield Quote

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
- James A. Garfield Quote

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

Poverty is uncomfortable; 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.
- James A. Garfield Quote

Right reason is stronger than force.
- James A. Garfield Quote

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
- James A. Garfield Quote

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
- James A. Garfield Quote

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
- James A. Garfield Quote

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 Quote

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
- James A. Garfield Quote

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
- James A. Garfield Quote

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
- James A. Garfield Quote