“My God! What is there in this place that a man should ever want to get into it?”
James A. Garfield
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“It is no part of the functions of the National Government to find employment for the people, and if we were to appropriate a hundred millions for his purpose, we should only be taxing 40 millions of people to keep a few thousand employed.”
James A. Garfield
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“The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.”
James A. Garfield
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“The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.”
James A. Garfield
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“If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.”
James A. Garfield
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“I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.”
James A. Garfield
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“I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.”
James A. Garfield
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“A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.”
James A. Garfield
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“Ideas control the world.”
James A. Garfield
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“Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.”
James A. Garfield
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Effort
