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

Quote by James A Garfield

Topics: Presidency Quotes

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...

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

Suicide is not a remedy.

Suicide is not a remedy.

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

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...

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.

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...

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.

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

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

Ideas control the world.

Ideas control the world.

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...

Right reason is stronger than force.

Right reason is stronger than force.