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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.
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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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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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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The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.
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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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We hold reunions, not for the dead, for there is nothing in all the earth that you and I can do for the dead. They are past our help and past our praise. We can add to them no glory, we can give to them no immortality. They do not need us, but forever and forever more we need them.
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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 any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.
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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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