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