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For love of country, they accepted death.
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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God reigns, and the Government at Washington still lives!
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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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I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a fossil.
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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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If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.
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Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.
James A. Garfield
I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.
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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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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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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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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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In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.
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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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Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.
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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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Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.
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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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History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.
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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.
James A. Garfield
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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