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

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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...

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen...

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Right reason is stronger than force.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really...

The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really...

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.

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.

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...

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

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...

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face...

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face...

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...

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

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...