James A. Garfield

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

"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. "

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

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