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James A Garfield Inspirational Quotes (71)

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The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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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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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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We are apt to be deluded into false security by political catch-words, devised to flatter rather than instruct.
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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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