The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Freedom, Misery, Truth, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Bravery, Confrontation, Defiance, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Agitation, Investigation, Truth, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Integrity, Logic, Mathematics, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Perseverance, Success, Work Ethic, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Achievement, Discovery, Persistence, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Control, Influence, Power, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Government, Peace, Sunshine, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Adequacy, Growth, Occupation, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Confidence, Self-improvement, Success, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Defense, Preparedness, War, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
The people are responsible for the character of their Congress. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Accountability, Influence, Responsibility, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Ignorance, Insight, Repetition, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Optimism, Perseverance, Resilience, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Accomplishment, Crisis, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Control, Economy, Power, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Democracy, Empowerment, Equality, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Citizenship, Freedom, Independence, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Disconnect, Ignorance, Leadership, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Interconnectedness, Mutualism, Unity, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it? Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Curiosity, Fear, Isolation, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Fear, Integrity, Morality, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Freedom, Reality, Tangible, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Innovation, Patience, Progress, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. Author, January 17, 2024January 9, 2025, James A. Garfield, Folly, Government, Wisdom, 0 James A. Garfield Copy
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. William James Philosopher and psychologist · USA
Life is doubt, and faith without doubt is nothing but death. Miguel de Unamuno Philosopher and writer · Spain
