James A. Garfield

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

Ideas 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.

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.

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.