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
It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
Poverty is uncomfortable as I can testify: 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 for himself.
Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
Ideas control the world.
He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.
Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
