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1. "If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it." ~ James A. Garfield
2. "Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, its spirit, its life." ~ James A. Garfield
3. "Justice and goodwill will outlast passion." ~ James A. Garfield
4. "Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained." ~ James A. Garfield
5. "A law is not a law without coercion behind it." ~ James A. Garfield
6. "I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came." ~ James A. Garfield
7. "If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it." ~ James A. Garfield
8. "I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat." ~ James A. Garfield
9. "There are men and women who make the world better just by being the kind of people they are. They have the gift of kindness or courage or loyalty or integrity. It really matters very little whether they are behind the wheel of a truck or running a business or bringing up a family. The teach the truth by living it." ~ James A. Garfield
10. "Jika kerut merut mesti tertera di dahi kita,biarlah mereka tidak tertera di hati kita.Jiwa kita jangan pernah menjadi tua." ~ James A. Garfield
11. "Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen." ~ James A. Garfield
12. "There is no horizontal stratification of society in this country like the rocks in the earth, that hold one class down below forevermore, and let another come to the surface to stay there forever. Our stratification is like the ocean, where every individual drop is free to move, and where from the sternest depths of the mighty deep any drop may come up to glitter on the highest wave that rolls." ~ James A. Garfield
13. "The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." ~ James A. Garfield
14. "A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil." ~ James A. Garfield
15. "He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation." ~ James A. Garfield
16. "Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality." ~ James A. Garfield
17. "The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think." ~ James A. Garfield
18. "Poverty is uncomfortable; 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." ~ James A. Garfield
19. "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people." ~ James A. Garfield
20. "The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law." ~ James A. Garfield
21. "I am a poor hater." ~ James A. Garfield
22. "I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty." ~ James A. Garfield
23. "Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis." ~ James A. Garfield

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