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Quotes by James A. Garfield

  • History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
  • Be fit for more than the thing you are now doing. Let everyone know that you have a reserve in yourself that you have more power than you are now using. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
  • A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
  • Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.