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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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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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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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The ideal college is Mark Hopkins on one end of a log and a student on the other.
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No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.
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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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Heroes did not make our liberties they but reflected and illustrated them.
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Suicide is not a remedy
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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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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 divorce between church and state should be absolute.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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There are times in the history of men and nations, when they stand so near the vale that separates mortals from the immortals, time from eternity, and men from their God, that they can almost hear the beatings, and feel the pulsations of the heart of the Infinite.
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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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.
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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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