James A. Garfield
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"James Abram Garfield" served as the List of Presidents of the United States/20th President of the United States (1881), after completing nine consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives/U.S. House of Representatives (1863–81).

Garfield's accomplishments as President included a controversial resurgence of Presidential authority above Senatorial courtesy in executive appointments; energizing United States Navy/U.S. naval power; and purging corruption in the United States Post Office/Post Office Department. Garfield made notable diplomatic and judiciary appointments, including a Supreme Court of the United States/U.S. Supreme Court justice. Garfield appointed several African-Americans to prominent federal positions. As President, Garfield advocated a bimetallism/bi-metal monetary system, agricultural technology, an educated electorate, and civil rights for African-Americans. He proposed substantial civil service reform, eventually passed by Congress in 1883 and signed into law by his successor, Chester A. Arthur, as the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act.

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

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Ideas control the world.

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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

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

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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.

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

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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

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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.

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A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

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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.

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

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