Famous Quotes

"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."

James A. Garfield on Best

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• "Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."

  John Wooden on Best

• "Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

  Thomas Jefferson on Best

• "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

  Theodore Roosevelt on Best

• "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting."

  e. e. cummings on Best

• "In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher."

  Dalai Lama on Best

More quotes by James A. Garfield

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

• "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."

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