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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
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The divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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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 must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning its two eyes are geography and chronology.
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