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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
James A. Garfield
Education
Freedom
Importance
Justice
Popular
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
James A. Garfield
World
The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
James A. Garfield
College
End
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
Life
Soul
People
Body
Nation
Spirit
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
James A. Garfield
Law
Service
Suicide is not a remedy.
James A. Garfield
Suicide
Right reason is stronger than force.
James A. Garfield
Force
Reason
Right
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
James A. Garfield
Wisdom
People
Folly
Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis.
James A. Garfield
Crisis
Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.
James A. Garfield
Man
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
James A. Garfield
Truth
First
Will
There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.
James A. Garfield
states
United
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
Man
Poverty
The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.
James A. Garfield
Government
Peace
People
Duty
Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
James A. Garfield
History
Men
Planning
Presidency