History Quote by James A. Garfield Download Open image “Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.” — James A. Garfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Men Planning Presidency
There's never been a presidency that's done so much in such a short period of time, and we haven't even started the big work… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I think a lot of presidents learn to be president by being president. — Dee Dee Myers Copy Share Image
It looks to me like any man that wants to be President in times like these lacks something. — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
PRESIDENT, n. The leading figure in a small group of men of whom - and of whom only - it is positively known that… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
As you approach the presidency, no one seems worthy of it, since it wasn't designed for a human in the first place. — Wilfrid Sheed Copy Share Image
In their day, no man worthy of the presidency would ever stoop to campaigning for it. George Washington was asked to serve. Decades later,… — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
“All men who run for presidency of the United States are amateurs; there is no way of becoming a professional at it, and all… — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
..remember that under our institutions there was no middle ground for the negro race between slavery and equal citizenship. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Whomsoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce and when you realize that the entire… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
“Jika kerut merut mesti tertera di dahi kita, biarlah mereka tidak tertera di hati kita. Jiwa kita jangan pernah menjadi tua.” — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
