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James A Garfield Inspirational Quotes (71)

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For love of country, they accepted death.
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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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When the Divine Artist would produce a poem, He plants a germ of it in a human soul, and out of that soul the poem springs and grows as from the rose-tree the rose.
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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Wherever a ship ploughs the sea, or a plough furrows the field wherever a mine yields its treasure wherever a ship or a railroad train carries freight to market wherever the smoke of the furnace rises, or the clang of the loom resounds even in the lonely garret where the seamstress plies her busy needle--there is industry.
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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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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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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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