Poverty is uncomfortable; 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.

Quote by James A Garfield

Topics: Poverty Quotes

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea...

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student...

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student...

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I...

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I...

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible...

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible...

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and...

Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and...

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry...

Ideas control the world.

Ideas control the world.

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor...

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor...

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the...

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the...

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated...

The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated...

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the...

The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Poverty is a career for lots of well paid people

Poverty is a career for lots of well paid people

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater...

Poverty is death in another form

Poverty is death in another form