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Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.
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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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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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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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The worst days of darkness through which I have ever passed have been greatly alleviated by throwing myself with all my energy into some work relating to others.
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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 am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.
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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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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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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 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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Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.
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Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.
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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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