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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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Right reason is stronger than force.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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For mere vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge. But for security of the future I would do every thing.
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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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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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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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[Science] is the literature of God written on the stars-the trees-the rocks-and more important because [of] its marked utilitarian character.
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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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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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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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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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If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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