The best Quotes by James A. Garfield

Ideas control the world.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Suicide is not a remedy.

Man cannot live by bread alone; he must have peanut butter.

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

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

The office of the Vice-President is a greater honor than I ever dreamed of attaining.

Experience has shown that the trade of the East is the key to national wealth and influence.

Sometimes all a girl really needed was a very bad idea.

Great execution is at least 10 times more important and a 100 times harder than a good idea.

Lies are comforting. Truth is painful.

Truth never wins, but its enemies cease to exist.

Death is Peaceful, Life is Harder.

Leonard: "The key to acquiring proficiency in any task is repetition."
Sheldon: "...with certain obvious exceptions. Suicide for example!"

Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty."

Oh, we got bread. I can't eat you, but I'm gonna look at you!

One candidate is too old and mentally unfit to be president. The other one is me.

A two-state solution is the only way to guarantee the long-term security of both the Israeli and the Palestinian people.
To make sure Israelis and Palestinians alike live in equal measure of freedom and dignity, we will not give up on working towards that goal.

I've known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it - Jeffrey enjoys his social life.

In order to make America great and glorious again, I am tonight announcing my candidacy for president of the United States.

For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia. The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq...- I mean of Ukraine.

We can't do everything, but we have to do, what we can do.

Now there's no question China has been trying to crack down on the Internet. Good luck! That's sort of like trying to nail jello to the wall.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense… human rights invented America.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

Our Constitution works; our great republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time.

The presidency has many problems, but boredom is the least of them.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.