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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
Lawyer
Military Officer
Politician
Statesperson
James Abram Garfield
James Garfield
J. A. Garfield
J. Garfield
President Garfield
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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Battles are never the end of war for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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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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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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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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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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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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