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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.
James A. Garfield
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James A. Garfield
Age: 49 †
Born: 1831
Born: November 19
Died: 1881
Died: September 19
20Th U.S. President
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James Abram Garfield
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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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 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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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 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 separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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