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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.
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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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