James A. Garfield

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#had #i #life #many #my life

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#contests #deal #dislike #doctrines #events

I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#everything #i #make #man #mean

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#hard #hard work #possible #power #skill

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

— James A. Garfield

#occupy #place #small #too #you

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#freedom #importance #justice #maintained #neither

Right reason is stronger than force. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#reason #right #right reason #stronger #than

Suicide is not a remedy. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#suicide

The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#end #hopkins #ideal #log #mark

The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission. ↗

— James A. Garfield

#may #remission #said #shedding #sin