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

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...

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...

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.

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 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...

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.

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...

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...

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion

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.

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small...

If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small...

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

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...

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...

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the...

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the...

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.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a...

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a...

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.