More from James A. Garfield

  1. I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
  2. If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
  3. I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
  4. Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay a…
  5. I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
  6. 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 t…
  7. History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
  8. The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.

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