Famous Quotes

"Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it."

James A. Garfield on History

More quotes about History

• "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

  Confucius on History

• "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

  Abraham Lincoln on History

• "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

  Mahatma Gandhi on History

• "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

  Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

• "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

  Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by James A. Garfield

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

• "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."

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

• "The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people."