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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.
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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Talleyrand once said to the first Napoleon that the United States is a giant without bones. Since that time our gristle has been rapidly hardening.
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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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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 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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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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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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.
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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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I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'
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