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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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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 would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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