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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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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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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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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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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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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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