Quote #42

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

More from James A. Garfield

  1. Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you …
  2. I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
  3. All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
  4. I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
  5. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
  6. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
  7. I am about to assume the great trust which you have committed to my hands. I appeal to you for that earnest and thoughtful support which ma…
  8. Ideas control the world.

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