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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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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Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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Right reason is stronger than force.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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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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I found a kind of party terrorism pervading and oppressing the minds of our best men.
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At present, the most valuable gift which can be bestowed upon women is something to do which they can do well and worthily, and thereby maintain themselves.
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To all our means of culture is added the powerful incentive to personal ambition, no post of honor is so high but the poorest may hope to reach it.
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Nobody but radicals have ever accomplished anything in a great crisis. Conservatives have their place in the piping times of peace but in emergencies only rugged issue men amount to much.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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