James A. Garfield Quotes

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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.

The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

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.

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.

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

Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.