James A. Garfield

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

• I will not vote against the truths of the multiplication table.

• 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.

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

• History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.

• 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.

• 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 brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

• A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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