"Few men in our history have ever obtained……" — James A. Garfield
"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."
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86 Quotes by James A. Garfield
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- They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
- Ideas control the world.
- Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
- For the love of country they accepted death.
- Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
- [Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
- I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on…
- If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave…
- Statistics has been the handmaid of science, and has poured a flood of light upon the dark questions of famine…
- For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult;…
- Statistical science is indispensable to modern statesmanship. In legislation as in physical science it is beginning to be understood that…
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