“ 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
“ Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. James A. Garfield
“ It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil. James A. Garfield
“ Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield
“ Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it. James A. Garfield
“ Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: 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 for himself. 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
“ The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. James A. Garfield
“ If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old. James A. Garfield
“ I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat. 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
“ 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
