제임스 A. 가필드
진실은 당신을 자유롭게 할 것이지만 먼저 당신을 불행하게 할 것이다.
아이디어가 세상을 지배한다.
나는 많은 문제를 겪어봤지만 최악인 것은 한번도 오지 않았다.
Swain, can’t you stop this (pain)? Swain!
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
Things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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.
Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification. They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.
If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it’s the best possible substitute for it.
I mean to make myself a man, and if I succeed in that, I shall succeed in everything else.
I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.