James A. Garfield Quotes

“The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.”
“A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.”
“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
“Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it is simply a brutality.”
“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”
“I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.”
“Poverty is uncomfortable, as I can testify; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.”