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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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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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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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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The civil service can never be placed on a satisfactory basis until it is regulated by law.
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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Most human organizations that fall short of their goals do so not because of stupidity or faulty doctrines, but because of internal decay and rigidification.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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