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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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Justice and goodwill will outlast passion.
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You and I are now nearly in middle age, and have not yet become soured and shrivelled with the wear and tear of life. Let us pray to be delivered from that condition where life and nature have no fresh, sweet sensations for us.
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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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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The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.
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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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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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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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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.
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We can not overestimate the fervent love of liberty, the intelligent courage, and the sum of common sense with which our fathers made the great experiment of self-government.
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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them.
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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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The separation of Church and State in everything relating to taxation should be absolute.
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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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