James A. Garfield - pound of pluck is worth a ton

• Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself; that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
• History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.
• Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
• "A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil."
• "A law is not a law without coercion behind it."
• "A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck."

                                                                                                                                                                                           James A. Garfield