~ James A. Garfield Quotes ~

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James A. Garfield Quotes


The 20th President of the United States, after completing nine successive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. 
James Abram Garfield (November 19, 1831 – September 19, 1881) served as the 20th President of the United States, after completing nine successive terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. His Presidency lasted only 200 days – from March 4, 1881 until his death on September 19, 1881, from an assassin's bullet, fired the previous July 2. His was the second shortest presidential tenure to that of William Henry Harrison, and he is the only incumbent of the U.S. House of Representatives to have been elected President.

Here are some famous quotes by James A. Garfield. 

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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

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The truth will set you free but first it will make you miserable.

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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

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

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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.

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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.

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Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: 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 for himself.

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Now more than ever before the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant reckless and corrupt it is because the people tolerate ignorance recklessness and corruption.