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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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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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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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Of course I deprecate war, but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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There are some things I am afraid of: I am afraid to do a mean thing.
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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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I have seen the sea lashed into fury and tossed into spray, and its grandeur moves the soul of the dullest man but I remember that it is not the billows, but the calm level of the sea from which all heights and depths are measured.
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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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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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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 best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual efforts of citizens, and from those burdens of taxation which they voluntarily impose upon themselves.
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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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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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I am receiving what I suppose to be the usual number of threatening letters on the subject. Assassination can be no more guarded against than death by lightning it is best not to worry about either.
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A nation is not worthy to be saved if, in the hour of its fate, it will not gather up all its jewels of manhood and life, and go down into the conflict however bloody and doubtful, resolved on measureless ruin or complete success.
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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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