Quote #43
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
More from James A. Garfield
- History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
- I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
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- I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
- All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
- Ideas control the world.
- A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
- If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.