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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 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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For love of country, they accepted death.
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Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.
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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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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Suicide is not a remedy
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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.
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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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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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Power exhibits itself under two distinct forms,--strength and force,--each possessing peculiar qualities, and each perfect in its own sphere. Strength is typified by the oak, the rock, the mountain. Force embodies itself in the cataract, the tempest, and the thunder-bolt.
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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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All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
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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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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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The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think.
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