145 Quotes by James A. Garfield

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

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it....