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

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Ideas control the world.

Ideas control the world.

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

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 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...

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...

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...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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 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...

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

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

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...

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.

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 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...

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

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

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

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

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

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...