James A. Garfield
James A. Garfield
James Abram Garfieldwas the 20th President of the United States, serving from March 4, 1881, until his assassination later that year. Garfield had served nine terms in the House of Representatives, and had been elected to the Senate before his candidacy for the White House, though he declined the senatorship once he was president-elect. He is the only sitting House member to be elected president...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPresident
Date of Birth19 November 1831
CountryUnited States of America
Ideas control the world.
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace; but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.
For the love of country they accepted death.
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.
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
Right reason is stronger than force.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.