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James A. Garfield Quotes - Ideas control the world

  • I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
  • I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.
  • I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
  • Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
  • Ideas control the world.
  • If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

James A. Garfield - All free governments are managed

  • All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
  • Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
  • He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
  • I am a poor hater.
  • I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
  • I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

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