James A. Garfield

President

1831-11-19

Books by James A. Garfield

Garfield's Words

Suggestive Passages from the Public and Private Writings of James Abram Garfield
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Inaugural Speeches: Complete Edition
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Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.
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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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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
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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.
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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
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Suicide is not a remedy.
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I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.
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