All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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James A. Garfield
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About James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfield was the 20th president of the United States, serving from March 1881 until his death in September that year after being shot in July. A preacher, lawyer, and Civil War general, Garfield served nine terms in the United States House of Representatives and is the only sitting member of the House to be elected president. Before he ran for president, the Ohio General Assembly had elected him to the U.S. Senate, a position he declined upon becoming president-elect.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by James A. GarfieldIdeas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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.
Man cannot live by bread alone he must have peanut butter.