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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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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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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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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The lesson of history is rarely learned by the actors themselves.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.
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